Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand men of Harvard had a wonderful time. After it was all over they marched, sang, deuced, and shouted their way back into the gray and gold dusk of Cambridge Towne and a mood of complete reenchantment. Princeton was a long week in the past: Yale only a short week in the future...
...Sayde could finally talk, she told the cops about her dealings with Moe and his brother. They traced a thug named Abe Greenburg to New York, where he confessed that Moe and Gail had put him up to the job. They also found the man with the gun, a short, swart ex-convict, Joe Miller. The boys were pretty mad. Between them they'd made only...
...severely practical, it must also be without taste or beauty." As gifts of everything from stuffed pillows to sewing machines piled up in St. James's Palace (TIME, Nov. 10), a young lord asked Elizabeth what she needed most: "So far," said the Princess, "we're awfully short on silver and Mummie and Daddy haven't passed any over...
When Cima ran short of funds before the first volume was printed, other publishing houses refused to join in such a formidably uncommercial undertaking...
...Wittenberg gives short shrift to slovenly reporters who think that they protect themselves by adding "it is alleged" or "it is said" or by quoting anonymous "sources." The law: "Divorcing one's self from a story by attributing it to others is not ... a defense in libel." Authors who preface their novels with the stock disclaimer-"Any resemblance ... is purely coincidental"-are also kidding themselves. Even a novelist who invents a wholly imaginary character can be sued, if a real person proves that the public could reasonably assume that he was being described. Says Wittenberg: "The question...