Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharks & Risk. The Standard broke the news, and other papers picked it up, but they were still short of details. Not even M. Besse's closest friends seemed to know where he had been born. He had gone to the Middle East as a young man, made most of his money in hides, skins, coffee and the operation of a fleet of merchant ships. It was said he had been born a gypsy, that he owned half the city of Aden, the rocky British colony at the edge of the Red Sea. During the war he had been anti...
...Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
...been edging up, seemed encouraged by the President's inaugural speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average had recovered more than half of its 19-point drop following the November election. At 181.54, the industrial average was only 8.65 points short of its pre-election high mark. Even the airline stocks, which had been in the worst doldrums of all, perked up at news of dwindling deficits; their gains outran the market as a whole...
...Hemingway." Two years later, his story of a Communist organizer (This Is Your Day) further established his skill-and his slant. He had been a contributor to the New Masses, but while his left hand was busy with ideological chores, his right was making a reputation for him with short stories in The New Yorker...
Long before the end, readers may ask themselves the same question. The Hollow of the Wave fails to explain the social dilemma of its drifting characters and falls equally short of lighting up the sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...