Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Summons. "Now that the storm of battle is clearing away, I hope I can prevail upon you to spend a night in Albany . . . and confer with me on the conduct and issues of the campaign in which we are all engaged together . . . soon."-Alfred E. Smith, last week, to Missouri's white-crested, Republican-flaying Senator James A. Reed. Senator Reed telephoned from St. Louis that he would go East directly...
...heir apparent was, last week, the Sovereign's cousin Alfred Aloyse, but he too will soon be dead and his estate the prey of tax gatherers. Therefore the succession to the Throne of Liechtenstein was allotted, last week, to fall upon Prince Alfred Aloyse's 18-year-old grandson, Prince Franz Joseph Marie Aloyse Alfred Charles Jean Henri Michel Georges Ignace Benoit Gerard Majella de Liechtenstein. Thus only one, not two sets of inheritance taxes, will have to be paid before young Prince Franz ascends his minute Throne...
...between the shells of California and Yale. They were going along at a high beat of about 40 strokes a minute; yet the two crews seemed tied together, side-by-side, by a rubber band that would stretch just a little. A short race (2,000 metres), it was soon to end. Coxswain Stewart of Yale pulled out his red handkerchief, which told the eight boys facing him that they would have to sprint like mad. But they had been sprinting all along, and so had California. The rubber band contracted to a quarter of a length, at the finish...
Ella Randolph soon began to scream and succeeded after several minutes in attracting the attention of a crowd of taxi drivers lined up at the curb below. Obeying her instructions, these piled the cushions from their cars directly under the inverted head of Horace Poor. Policemen visited a nearby hotel whence they secured a blanket; this they stretched under Horace Poor, above the pillows and cushions. With a tremulous cry, Nurse Randolph released her banker; he sped down for an instant, plunged through the blanket and lay, panting and lolling, on the cushions...
...Spaniards' brutality reduced these Indians to a paltry number and, needing laborers, they began importing large numbers of Africans. Before long the color line was so loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English traders, and by the end of the 18th Century French control was so well in the ascendency that Haiti contributed vast wealth to the kingdom of France...