Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems strange to me that ... I should suddenly become one of the idols of the English public merely by writing one short play. Congratulations are pouring in upon me now, but they find me only a very weak old man, barely able to stand...
Cemetery, Nuremberg, last week, by Common Councilman Herr Doktor Wagner. Drawing a deep breath, he declared: "Proudly Nuremberg calls him Son and Master in the same breath! Today we place a wreath upon this silent hill. Ach! Vita brevis, ars aeterna [Oh, Life is short (but), Art eternal...
Marriage Announced. Josef Casimir Hofmann, 52, famed pianist, head of the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) , to one Betty Short, 21. They were married four years ago, following his divorce from Mrs. Marie Corcoran Eustis Hofmann and have a son, Anton...
...Southern Cross get her 50,000 bags of Rio coffee a-dock at Hoboken before the last trading hour of March? The 50,000 bags were bought and sold. If a hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them would be "short." Then the buyers could make them "pay through the nose," as Wall Street's cruel saying describes the desperate predicament of one who sells what he does not possess. Wireless orders dashed from Manhattan to the Southern Cross's captain bidding him drive his engines to their limits...
...hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...