Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through Kansas City, early in the week, passed a more cheerful figure than either the Beaver Man or the Modern Cincinnatus. This one, swart, short, mustachioed, had played a different game from theirs, a waiting game. Redskin ancestors on his grandmother's side had doubtless played the same game often. Out hunting with other braves, a good plan had been to let the others stalk, and perhaps frighten, the deer, which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks...
...Federal Reserve rate jacked up to 4½% all over the country to try and decelerate this movement-the money market of the U. S. was momentarily "high" and Secretary Mellon was obliged to offer, tax-exemption and all, the highest rate*he has paid in four years on short-term borrowings. Money men noted, also, that he made no specific reference to the terms that will be offered for financing the remaining $1,328,881,750 Third Liberty Loan Bonds which mature on Sept...
Dictator de Rivera, who has now convalesced from a short illness, issued at Madrid last week a brief statement that his engagement is at an end. It contained the allegation that the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos has recently been seen on the Stock Exchange making purchases in company with the Duke of Almodovalhe and Count Cimera. Such conduct, says the communique, was "imprudent and inexplicable...
...after spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they, too, would bring new honors to "Aussie," land of aviators...
...second start of the day found the two Crimson eights heading down the Thames with the wind and tide. Rowing in short stretches at the order of Coach Brown, the oarsmen drilled for some time on raising and lowering the stroke smoothly. Other faults revealed in the time trial were worked upon until the three mile mark was reached. At this point the shells came about and paddled at a moderate beat the return distance to the boathouse...