Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart how unimportant his strip really was, Editor Patterson threw Daddy, Annie and all, out of one day's edition. First thing next...
...apartment on Brattle Street. He was so anxious to have some sort of garden that he devised the scheme of placing plants on the fire escape to form a floral display. It was alright until the fire department demanded that they be immediately removed under the penalty of instant arrest...
...notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped a tank containing oil for the engines. The tank exploded and fire filled the engine room...
...survey will cover not only houses legally unfit for habitation, but also basement flats where now live some 100.000 souls. Only six out of every 100 U. S. inhabitants live in New York City, but one tenth of all Britons are Londoners. The new Labor Government in London had instant repercussions in the national Government last week. No sooner had the County Council an nounced its slum clearance program than the national Government pulled from its hat the largest slum clearance project Britain has ever known. Covering all England and Wales, it was to employ 115,000 men continuously...
...drawing card for Austria's languishing tourist trade. It would bring Austria the not inconsiderable backing of the Vatican. On the other hand, the restoration of Otto in Austria is but a stepping stone to restoration of the entire polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire. It would cause instant mobilization of the armies of Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania, countries that have battened on the partition of that Empire. It would cause new rioting in Vienna, still Socialist at heart. It would be violently opposed by France. Establishment of another court would be a very serious drain on the resources of an impoverished...