Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, President Hoover urged...
Next noon the Prime Minister consented to another trial, and started to read a short greeting, timed to end just as Big Ben commenced to strike. All went well until Mr. Baldwin lost his place in reading, paused awkwardly, and upon resuming did not get to the end of his remarks before Big Ben's 132-tons began to reverberate...
...friend of half the aristocracy of Europe, Frau Anna Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...
Said Mayor Enrique Balmaceda Toro, short and stout: "It is the duty of society in general to guard children from unwholesome impressions. Love shown in the plays at our Children's Theatre will be pure. Affection will be found only in the form of parental regard and patriotic tendencies...
Peter Modrak will speak at a Radio Colloquium at Craft Laboratory on "Short Wave Transmitters" at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Tea will be served in the lecture hall before the lecture at 4.15 o'clock...