Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This treasure of a message, pried up after many heaves of grandiloquent rhetoric, might better have been left buried. But among the shorter lyrics that follow it are several which may give the reader an extraordinary sense ot pleasure. For, slight though they are, they announce the survival of one of the finest of American lyric talents...
Bookstores bulged with patriotic literature, from Admiral Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter's 17th Century naval exploits to descriptions of Juliana's cookery. Tall heralds tried to fit into costumes which had been tailored for shorter, rounder men of an earlier day; the thrifty Dutch had saved the costumes for generations...
General practitioners generally get the short end of the stick, in pay and prestige. They also have shorter lives. The mortality rate of specialists is 30% lower than theirs, two Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Looking for reasons, the statisticians guessed that specialists make more money, can afford longer vacations and get better medical care...
...Resort Owner Jack Fowler, son of the original owner and a brother of Novelist Gene Fowler, was horrified. He refused vehemently. The professor kept pleading. This year Fowler gave in, strung a new and shorter wire (320 ft. long and 125 ft. high) lower in the canyon...
...friends who saw them together, they were almost dead ringers: Soulima's features seem to be just an understatement of his father's-the conical, coconut-shaped head and palm-frond ears, protruding nose, with a stubble of sandy mustache above pendulous lips. Stravinsky is shorter (about...