Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow, famed Walter Duranty, veteran New York Times correspondent, was notified, last week, by the 0. Henry Memorial Award Committee of Manhattan, that he had won their latest $500 annual prize for the best short story published...
...goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation. And a few blocks distant, President Daniel Willard of the great Baltimore & Ohio R. R. rose in the Hotel Commodore to add: "Since 1920, railroad earnings have fallen short of a 'fair' percentage...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...
...arches, lilac, pink, and pearl; and as admiral laden with gold braid he stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where many mistook him for president, and ever afterwards dubbed him Jubilee...
Like most innocent and hence significant humorists of the printed page, Frank Sullivan makes no blatant wisecracks in public places. He is an amazingly quiet Irishman, just short of plump. His occasional spoken words make sense and everybody likes...