Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught Shortless. In Washington, U.S. Senator Homer Ferguson was informed by a Detroit drygoods wholesaler that underwear-short Detroit men were reduced to buying ladies' panties...
...Asor Island became the headquarters of the ATCOM (atoll commander), short, jovial Commodore Oliver Owen ("Scrappy") Kessing...
...green cloth book-bag. . . . He knew enough not to call President Conant "Rheinhardt". . . . Nevertheless, it was impossible for him to find anyone whom he could call a friend. The one attempt he had made at approaching the man across the hall had been coldly, yet courtesouly, rebuffed with a short "Have we been introduced?" . . . The youth began to despair of ever making the slightest dent in campus affairs or being elected to the Swift Custard Institute of 1776." --Yale News Digest...
...Although he says of his course, "We do not write to sell, and I think a lot of the best stuff has not sold at all," the record has an exceedingly successful ring to it: ¶ Pupil John Mayo Goss's check from the Atlantic was for a short story, Bird Song; the 50-year-old ex-adman's story was the 25th to be sold by a Strode student...
...murmur wonderingly. "Closed forever on all God's beauty." God's beauty was spread wider for John Muir than for most men. He absorbed and reveled in it as his vital element. With passionate volubility and in sinewy prose, he brought it vividly alive for more short sighted mortals. He fought for it, hard and successfully, against the invasion of commercialism. Emerson named the bearded Scot in his private list of "My Men." His most notable victory was the long, touch-& -go battle for the conservation of Yosemite Valley. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have seen his best...