Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite top-notch but cheerfully active is a large group of hostesses who produce parties in the light-opera class. Typical of this group are: Mrs. John B. Henderson, the self-appointed social guardian of the diplomatic corps in Washington, objects to meat, tobacco, alcohol and short skirts-except when bearing foreign labels. She wants to change the name of 16th Street, where stands her famed brown castle, to "The Avenue of the Presidents." Her swimming pool is open to foreigners almost exclusively. Once she offered the nation a home for the Vice President. When it was declined she sold...
...that Catholic War Minister Karl Vaugoin openly advocates the proclamation of a Fascist Dictatorship, while Communist Otto Bauer, onetime Foreign Minister, is quite as eager to proclaim a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Finally there is not space in which to note that Wall Street is inclined to sell distinctly short on Austria-as is shown by the fact that it has recently proved impossible for the Government at Vienna to borrow in Manhattan $100,000,000 urgently needed to revamp Austria's state railways, telegraphs, telephones...
...health is on the point of breaking," said Prime Minister Kasimir Bartel to members of his Cabinet last week. "After nearly three years of conducting affairs of state, I am in urgent need of rest. In short, gentlemen, I have tendered my resignation...
...great mass of his public cherishes him for quite another reason: dean of mystery and detective fiction, he has written 400-odd short stories, and, at the last census, 140 full-length yarns. One in every four books sold in England is by Wallace, and the tremendous sale in Germany, the U. S., Australia and South Africa, brings his yearly total to 5,000,000 copies. His U. S. publishers are boasting "a Wallace per month" for the next twelve months, and his German Verlag distributes a catalog two-thirds of which concerns Wallace Detektiv-Romane and Theaterstücken...
Whopper-publishers Simon & Schuster and Whopperess Lowell, replied cheerfully that she had used ''artistic selectivity." Husband Thompson Buchanan, a journalist-playwright with Hollywood affiliations, admitted that it was true that his wife had lived on the Minnie A. Caine only a short time, but protested that she had lived on many another ship and that in her book she had merged all the real ships into one literary entity, thus demonstrating her good judgment...