Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was short and sharp. Washington's Mon C. Wallgren declared that such cuts, which hit irrigation and power projects, reminded him of a home-builder leaving a dwelling half-finished. California's Earl Warren chimed: "These are not appropriations . . . but investments...
...news in the furlong free-for-all for a field of 150 was the upset of CRIMSON-backed Mary Ross, also Wellesley '47. Reported a sure winner at post time, the petite but spirited blend speedster was last seen in the stretch just short of the treacherous Chapel turn, running easily and widening a big lead. Rumors of foul play were quickly squelched by the Wellesley publicity offices, but the Cambridge daily had its best men conducting a Waban-wide search last night for suspicious circumstances in the shadows of Tower Court...
When a collection of short stories written by literary unknowns achieves nationwide attention through sympathetic reviews in the leading book review columns across the country, and three pages in Life magazine, the casual reader assumes something unusual has been written. When this book is not replete with scenes of sex (although one such story included might recommend the book on this basis), the bystander should be poring over its contents to find the reason for all this publicity. In "The Purple Testament," he will find himself perusing not outstanding technical composition but written fragments...
Fifty-three disabled veterans in an English class at American University in Washington found themselves writing short stories of their most personal experiences and thoughts, the majority of them concerning the war. These amputees were not geniuses undiscovered. But through the understanding and encouragement of their professor, Don Wolfe--one of those men whose work is not his job but his life--these accounts became so telling in their moving directness that Wolfe decided to obtain the publication of these stories. Deciding at the outset that all profits would go to the disabled authors, he felt more and more impelled...
...cellar!" When Longfellow married, his father-in-law bought the house for the couple, and soon their home became a great social and literary center. Among the visitors were Emerson, Louis Phillippe, Don Pedro II of Brazil, Hawthorne, and Dickens. But in 1861 Longfellow's bustling happiness was cut short. His wife, sealing up packages of her daughter's curls, caught her dress on fire, and although he tried to save her, he was unsuccessful...