Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, some 30 barefooted, play-suited wives and daughters of Senators and Representatives answered the roll at the Congressional Club. They listened to a short health and diet talk by Mrs. Lodge, then followed her, in their various ways, through a strenuous hour of health dancing. They had been doing the same thing every Wednesday ever since Feb. 19. Said Mrs. Lodge delightedly...
...article gave further instructions: "A team of embalmers working alternately and each exposing himself for only short periods, might complete the embalming process [upon remains not dangerously radioactive]. Such a body might be exhibited to public view provided the visitors file quickly past the bier...
Outside the House of Commons another big blizzard snarled transport and set back recovery from The Crisis. But inside the chill Victorian-Gothic chamber, tempers were short and hot. The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history. It went along like this...
Last week, as Lady Day approached once again in wheat-short Britain, dark, handsome Sir Anthony Doughty-Tichborne, the latest in the line, hied himself to Britain's Food Ministry to ask permission to buy flour for his tenants with 14,000 ration coupons he had collected from them. He needed the flour, he said, to hold off the family curse imposed by his resolute ancestress. In Britain, where curses have a longer history than rationing, the request was granted...
...Short Orchestral Work: Weber's Der Freischütz overture, by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony (Victor...