Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second when Saul Mariaschin singled, stole second, went to third on an infield out, and scored on Swegan's single. The Nutmeggers scored twice in the fourth on a single, a sacrifice, and three consecutive singles. A double play, Phelan to Swegan to Petrillo, cut the rally short...
...promised a lot-and performed miserably. In cold statistics it read like this: America, the richest and best-fed nation in the world, was 12,000,000 bushels of wheat short of its commitments to starving Europe, and little wheat was moving off U.S. farms to make up the total of 225,000,000 bushels pledged by July...
Peggy Cummins, Hollywood's blonde Amber, gave her inflammable all to a bedroom scene, and smoke billowed up from the floor. Just a short circuit in the wiring...
Actors. The first and least reprehensible of these categories are the actors. Here we find nothing but amateurs. . . . Metamorphosis, the very essence of histrionic art, is utterly foreign to these actors. [They] do not realize that they are leading the brilliant but short lives of dazzling butterflies. . . . The few really great actors remaining in Hollywood-a Chaplin or a Garbo-fade ever further into the background...
...follow Eudora Welty's train across the Mississippi Delta will find that its last stop is cloud-cuckoo land-which was also the setting of Author Welty's previous books: A Curtain of Green (TIME, Nov. 24, 1941); The Wide Net (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943). In those short stories (which won her one Guggenheim Award and three O. Henry Memorial Awards, as well as distinguished critical praise), Author Welty showed that she could envision and remodel men & women in such a way that when they appeared in her pages-clothed in a fairy-taleish, often brilliant prose-they...