Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam- Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"-one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample had been point-scored when shipped...
...playing with her two Pekinese, Miss Spence always used to insist upon "tone." Her purpose was "to develop a perfect gentlewoman, intellectually firm, and having, poise, simplicity and graciousness." The new trustees, and the revitalized alumnae were fully prepared to ensure that the new Spence should not fall short...
...Manhattan last week two white-bearded men of almost exactly the same short stature spoke to each other...
Said the first, whose white beard is short, trimmed: "I have given to this institution as chairman of the building committee three years of my entire time and energy. I have had no time whatsoever for my own business, which has been entirely neglected, besides having divorced myself from all other institutions with which I have been connected for 42 years. ... I therefore propose that this venerable rabbi shall be elected president of this great institution...
...short-bearded speaker was Harry Fischel, until last week acting president of Manhattan's Yeshiva College, builder of the first U. S. Yiddish theatre (the Grand, on Grand Street, Manhattan), builder of apartments and office buildings on Manhattan's Park Avenue, native of Russia, loyal orthodox...