Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then $20,000), settled an allowance of 150 yen a month on her parents, and sailed off with his new bride to the U.S. "Friends of the family," reported the New York Times later, "said that [George's father] disapproved the union." Whatever the reason, the newlyweds cut short their visit to Newport, and after a brief spell in New York, divided their lives between Yokohama and Europe's capitals. Twelve years later, in 1915, George Morgan dropped dead in Seville, leaving his widow an estimated...
...Moscow, famed Cineproducer Sergei Eisenstein took to the short waves to charge Hollywood with preaching "hatred of humanity and the Soviet Union, that great beacon of peace." Soliloquized Eisenstein reproachfully: "Can one remain an artist and not be impelled to arrest the hand which is sowing death...
...ground against his critics with all the solemn dignity of an elephant harried by terriers. But last week, the heel-nipping of London's press drew blood. So did their implications that Rank's General Cinema Finance Corp. Ltd., which produces Rank's pictures, was short of cash. Reluctantly Rank opened the books of G.C.F. and gave outsiders their first peek into his movie finances...
Reporter Irwin Rosten confronted each repairman with a portable radio "in perfect operating condition" except for a simple short circuit "in plain view." Some shops recommended repairs ("practically no two alike"): "a new condenser," "a short in the transformer," "a realignment job," "the oscillator is out of whack." Range of estimates: from $9 to $15. None mentioned the short circuit. What's more, the "radio servicemen" surreptitiously wrecked the volume control, the tuning control, two tubes and the batteries, putting the set "completely out of commission...
Died. Arthur Machen, 84, British author; in Beaconsfield, England. Deeply affected by the death of 5,000 British soldiers in the Battle of Mons (1914), he wrote a mystical short story, The Bowmen, which inspired a sincere belief in many Tommies that they had actually seen Saint George and his archers striking down the Germans on the battlefields...