Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raskob is a short, well-built man of gentle, clean-cut countenance. His favorite sport is sailing. His business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness...
Great was the regret of short, round-faced Boss O'Connell when the spatter of bullets broke the peace of his demesne on an early morning of last week. Into the heart of "The Gut" had marched Prohibition Agents Irving Washburn and Wilfred Grisson, bent on arrest. Suddenly, a group swarmed from an open doorway. Guns were drawn, fired. Agent Grisson escaped uninjured. But Agent Washburn fell to the pavement, mortally wounded...
...Author. Pirandello is known here and abroad for the unique informality of his drama technique. Aged 61, he has written prolifically plays, poetry, short stories, though for 30 years he taught in the Rome Normal College for Women. His father was proprietor of just such a Sicilian sulphur mine as Character Salvo...
...never did anybody see any open water between the shells of California and Yale. They were going along at a high beat of about 40 strokes a minute; yet the two crews seemed tied together, side-by-side, by a rubber band that would stretch just a little. A short race (2,000 metres), it was soon to end. Coxswain Stewart of Yale pulled out his red handkerchief, which told the eight boys facing him that they would have to sprint like mad. But they had been sprinting all along, and so had California. The rubber band contracted...
Last week the judges, Rubin Goldmark, U. S. composer, and Ernest Henry Schelling, U. S. pianist, awarded this prize to one Bozidar Kunc.. Composer Kunc had concocted a short concerto in two movements, the first in "a lovely, brave style," the second a dance which utilized folk melodies. Hitherto unheard of, Composer Kunc was discovered to be a native of Zagreb, capital of Croatia. His concerto will be heard publicly for the first time in October when Violinist Balokovic will play it in Berlin. Thereafter it will occupy a place on 66 programs with which Violinist Balokovic will tour...