Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juan Perón was seriously worried by strains within his regime, his show had given him a good chance to warn his enemies that he could still produce a potent mob of the faithful on short notice. Thus, the plot might be worth whatever it might cost in bad relations with the U.S. In any case, Juan Perón proved that he still knows how to polish off a general strike: he declared next day a general holiday, so everybody could rest...
Picasso & Co. had already invented cubism (painting guitars and fruits as if they had been smashed and reassembled in jagged geometrical patterns) and they found that cutting and pasting scraps of newspaper, wallpaper, wine labels and calling cards was a short-order way of cooking up cubist effects. Also it was an easy way to shock the fuddy-duddies...
Bruce and Beatrice have been collaborating since college days. They went to the State University of Iowa together, married in 1923, worked on Manhattan newspapers, and wrote short stories...
Stuffiness Is Out. They threw out the stuffy editorials, the colorless layouts, the long "short" stories, and crusaded for public health, clean politics and flogging for child-beaters. They began campaigning against venereal disease, wrote a widely reprinted ad headlined OF COURSE I'LL TAKE A WASSERMANN. Circulation sat up, got up, and climbed...
With shows opening four nights in a row, the new Broadway season was going strong last week, but the plays were still going sour. The sourest was a short-lived horror, intended as a comedy, called Grandma's Diary. The others...