Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 12).* At first the "Lion of Lorraine" had sulked and growled resentment at the torpedoing-the growls and sulks abating slowly. His sudden appearance now at ten p.m. meant unquestionably that he had succeeded in arranging a new and workable group of parties and ministries. Soon President Gaston Doumergue formally approved the following cabinet...
Though a roar of approval went up, Herr Scheidemann attached to it so little importance that he soon went back to his bowl of soup. He did not realize what he had done until jovial Freidrich Ebert, later first President of the Republic, rushed in flushed with indignation and exclaimed: "What have you done? I hear you have proclaimed a Republic! Don't you know you had no right to do that...
Treasure Girl. As soon as Beatrice Lillie, her onetime co-star in The Chariot Revue, had opened in Manhattan (see This Year of Grace) Gertrude Lawrence opened in a musical show of her own called Treasure Girl. Gertrude Lawrence is certainly the most consistently beautiful of all modern song and dance actresses. The pictures of her face and front and back, which decorate theatre lobbies, do not have to be taken from some special angle or worked over by men with brushes. On her long legs, she moves rapidly about the stage and she sings less with her larynx than...
...other party is Roy Wilson Howard, smartly groomed and quick-witted head of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers. He had stepped into the Denver field two years ago, purchased the Rocky Mountain News (morning) and formed the Evening News to compete with Mr. Bonfils' Post (evening). Mr. Bonfils soon issued a Morning Post (TIME, Jan. 17, 1927). The competition was a vicious fight-a circulation war, a death-grapple for advertising, a snarling in editorials, a sneering in news columns...
Parched and stinking, Bahrein Island barely breaks the surface of the Persian Gulf. European pates soon addle, uninsulated from its vicious sun. Before its troughs of rotting oysters, queasy European nostrils quail. Impervious to sun and stink, Arab traders hunker down, paddle the bubbling compost, comb it with their fingers...