Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common love of parents for offspring, should prompt the amalgamated parents of Boston ton consider the feelings of the mothers and fathers of Harvard sons. Too often this latter, less prominent group tardily discovers that an earnest devotion to the Boston side of a Harvard education cuts short the availability of Harvard itself...
...Vice President-elect had not, of course, hurried to Washington to ask the Vice President for his gavel or for parliamentary pointers on how to preside over the Senate. For the gavel Senator Curtis can have no use until the business of the Short Session is completed and he has resigned as Senator and has been inaugurated. For parliamentary pointers the Senate's new president, who has ruled over its Republican half since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924), has about as much need as a grandmother has need for instruction in baby-washing...
Major General Malone is 56, short, jocular, optimistic, and likely to be as much of a favorite with the 10,000 Philippine soldiers as he was with the discriminating fighting men of the St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne & Chateau Thierry offensives. Because he pursued famed Rebel Aguinaldo (1899-1901), he knows well the swamps and morasses of the Philippines. But, above all, he is the ardently romantic alumnus of the sheer grey towers of West Point. He has written five novels of life at the Military Academy...
...student speakers from Harvard have been received so far this term by the Speakers' Bureau of the Phillips Brooks House. It was announced last night by E. D. Emigh '30, chairman. Of this number 25 have been filled to date, an equal number of undergraduates and graduates having given short speeches before organizations of varying descriptions...
...reproduction can ever be just like the human voice, and as a result people will always go to the theatre. Also, the 'talkies' are bound to drag in a long play. I can see how short comedies, farces, or one act tragedies could be put across and interest maintained all the way through, but I don't think one would like to go to a talking movie of a Shakespearean play...