Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister, more nearly a novice, was the more eager to display her speed & brilliance. Charles B. Lanier, their father, the son of Poet Sidney Lanier, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Review of Reviews; the Laniers live in Greenwich, Conn. The Lanier girls began to ride horses as soon as they could walk; pictures of them jumping at the Stamford Show, standing beside their ponies at Westchester, watching the hunters at Piping Rock, began many years ago to appear in Rider and Driver, Town and Country, and the chatter supplements of Manhattan newsrags. Sally, two years younger than Becky...
...Dayton, Ohio, Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lieut. J. H. Doolittle were taking photographs. When their instruments indicated that they were flying toward the city at the rate of a mile a minute, they were in reality being carried away by a head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long enough to see his assailant...
...hours later Georgians knew about the catch in Canada. Soon Carnes would be in Atlanta, and many a Georgian, many another Southerner waited to hear what Carnes would say about the million dollars or more which represented the shortages in the accounts of the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board. Carnes had been treasurer of the board until he left Atlanta on or about Aug. 15, nor had he resigned...
...Sunday afternoons, last year, over an 18-station web. And his new and exciting title of "radio pastor" further lost significance when it became known that Rabbi Wise also would preach, that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick & Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, able Manhattan divines, might soon be given microphonal pulpits by the National Broadcasting Co., sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...
Jarnegan. To Hollywood, the "bums' paradise," where there is "a pushover on every corner," comes Jack Jarnegan, a crude and noisy dynamo, full of boxcar bombast. Soon he is a director of cinemasterpieces. He confesses that on his arrival in the loud metropolis he slept in a flop house in company with other tramps; now, on the contrary, he has a fine house where there are eleven bedrooms and a Jane in every one. Richard Bennett plays Jarnegan with guttural roars, hob-nails, stubble-beard and a chest expansion. All this is profane and exciting...