Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to wait until they ask me." "What about your love life?" "Absolutely none, except music-at the moment." Well, what about the President's recent remark that he hoped to hand down his gold-headed walking cane to a grandson? "I think Daddy was a little short of something to say at that point...
Strout's solution was short. "Put men of integrity, wisdom, and with a sense of decency and fair play on the committees and most of the troubles will vanish overnight," he said. He urged that reforms come from within Congress itself...
...bursts of energy. The technique, practised wherever there is ice in New England, is to chip a simple hole in the ice, drop a hook and bait into the water. At the other end of the line you attach a wooden bob with a violent red flag on a short length of stick and lay same on the ice next to the hole...
Stuffy is a smallish gray-haired man who played first base when Eddie Collins was at second, Jack Barry at short, and Home Run Baker was on third. He learned his baseball as part of the greatest infield of an era, and from the way he talked, it second he had learned it well. As part of his talk, Mcinnis demonstrated a foolproof method of running down erring base runners with just two pegs. Nobody had ever seen it before; but this spring everybody who even sees the Sands Point Tigers play will...
...musician, the actor, the interpreter of other's work--he is important only because he is a personality, only because we can see him, hear him, associate with him. In short, he is a responsible member of the world community along with the rest of us, because his sole contribution to art and culture rests entirely upon his physical presence. Here we can draw the line; here we can say that as an individual "you have failed, therefore you may not perform before us--others will do just as well...