Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself, I agree with the President that there are methods which are 'short of war but stronger and more effective than mere words'. . . . Economic action [by embargo] . . . has the possibility of most effective restraint...
Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...
Notes between the notes: Tommy Reynolds, playing at the Parker House next Wednesday, showed up as having quite a good band in his battle of music with Red Norvo a short time ago... Casa Loma's new album for Decca is supposed to be excellent, with Louis setting in as guest trumpet player on "Rockin" Chair"... Court decisions get more complicated with one judge in New Orleans recently handing down a decision to the effect that "the aforesaid plaintiff does have a solid band in the true New Orleans style, and should therefore he paid his wages...
...well-functioning infield has Buckley at first, Lynch at second, Finogan at short, and Whittemore at third. With Clay pitching, the garden patrol finds Reddy in left, Rice in contre, and Pitchford in right...
...Indian Creek, Texas 44 years ago, the great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone, she was educated in Louisiana convents, worked for New Orleans and Manhattan newspapers, has lived in Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, Mexico City, where Calles' official cameraman used her shapely legs as models for a cinema short on shoes. In 1931 she went to Berlin on a Guggenheim Fellowship, met Göring, Goebbels, Hitler, whom she considers "detestable and dangerous," moved to Paris, where she lived for five years. Last year she divorced her first husband, married Albert Russel Erskine Jr., English professor and business manager...