Word: shortly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Minister of Finance was announced to Austrian newsgatherers, Dr. Josef Redlich, famed jurist, historian, lecturer, was at Cambridge, Mass., comfortably ensconced as Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard University. Professor Redlich has already served a term as Austrian Minister of Finance in the short-lived Lammasch Cabinet of ex-Emperor Karl. Last week reporters found him on the steps of Harvard's Widener Memorial Library, a green baize book bag under...
Despite the nation's disappointment, the baby Princess was not neglected last week. Scarcely was her weight, 7¼ pounds, announced than the Lord Chamberlain Admiral Suzeki in elaborate court costume entered the royal nursery, bent over the royal bassinet, and laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime...
Tokyo realized, but not the rest of Japan. A poor telephone connection, the noise of the storm, caused radio broadcasters to believe that the child was a son. Gaily they announced the fact. In distant Japanese villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating gongs. It was hours before the true facts were learned. Aghast at the error all the officers of Tokyo's central broadcasting station resigned, grimly realized that it was their traditional duty to commit harikari...
...amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark road through the park and on to Lausanne, not the operation, or his quick recovery, but his own refusal to change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope the car was bringing him back again through the park, stopping at the door of the house he has made his ultima thule. There had been no fever, no aftermath. At the Chalet de Riond Bossons Madame Paderewski continued...
Among the professional tennis players who gathered for their championship last week at Forest Hills, L. I., were many whose jobs at country clubs keep them teaching children and patting easy serves across to elderly ladies who want to reduce-keep them, in short, from ever getting a decent match. Most of these had not come to Forest Hills in the hope of winning but because they wanted to play some tennis...