Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's youth were necking in drive-in movies instead of in shady lanes; teen-agers in Indianapolis referred to them as "passion pits." Iowa's 4-H girls got new uniforms-blue-green zipper dresses with short balloon sleeves-to replace their antiquated, long-sleeved, blue middy outfits. Los Angeles mothers complained that their offspring not only stayed awake until all hours because of daylight-saving time, but howled for refreshments. They asked the city council to draft an ordinance putting a 9 o'clock curfew on the tinkling bells of Good Humor wagons...
...written speech; it was 18 pages of notes. Wavy-haired Clark Clifford, his White House adviser, and JudgeSamuel I. Rosenman, who wrote many of Franklin Roosevelt's, speeches, had given him a detailed outline, full of short, punchy sentences...
...Berlin's quadripartite air-safety center, U.S., British and French officers busily recorded the arrival and departure of planes. Off in a quiet corner sat the Soviet officer on duty, curled up with a good book. It was Alexander Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter, a short novel studded with Russian proverbs. One of the proverbs could well be applied to the carefully planned but, so far, unsuccessful Russian blockade. It read: "A horse has four legs, and yet it stumbles...
...Copenhagen. He found that 72 were insane, another 55 were "constitutional psychopaths" with deformed personalities and a lack of moral responsibility. The Saint Hans alcoholics, he reported last week in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, were quarrelsome, they undermined hospital discipline, and 79% relapsed after a short dry period...
...original contracts. In the face of derisive snorts from highbrow critics, Hughes firmly believes that, if distribution obstacles can be overcome, The Outlaw will bring in one of the fattest yields of all time. He may be right. Hollywood has learned not to sell Howard Hughes short...