Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter wanted to know: what was the President's reaction to Ben Fairless' radio speech suggesting a White House conference of management executives? Harry Truman's jaw tightened. His reply was short and sharp: he did not make appointments over the radio or in the press. If industry wanted to come the regular way, the door would be open...
...tail's too short and I'm minus a quart...
Eight years later, when Modigliani turned up in Paris, he was still not much of an artist, and it was already obvious that his time was short. His lungs were bad. A black-eyed, elegant young fellow, he kept to himself, painted furiously, and destroyed most of it as he went along. Soon Matisse, Picasso, Utrillo and Brancusi took him up, introduced him to cubism, African sculpture, and cafe life. The combination freed him from his academic inhibitions: he began painting pictures that were worth keeping. Then he set about destroying himself...
...nonny-nonny sometimes breathed a desperate gaiety, most of the melodrama was pretty sound theater. And there were snatches of much-loved poetry (Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. . .). Most Shakespearean in reciting his lines (though he fell short in acting) was Actor Daniell. But word-spitting, eye-flashing, more-sulphurous-than-Shakespearean Florence Reed (The Shanghai Gesture) seemed to have the most...
...Caspian annually gives in evaporation about 410 billion cubic meters of water. From the sky it receives back some 70 billion in rainfall. The difference must be made up by the Volga, Ural and other smaller rivers. In recent years, the Volga's contribution has fallen short. Without G.V.P., prospects look dim for such ports as Batum-and for the caviar industry...