Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stubborn enough not to realize that Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...
...When Joseph was 17 he was brought from Canaan into Egypt, sold to Potiphar, a captain of the guard. In the house of Potiphar he was well favored and soon made overseer. Then, during the warm, dry days when Potiphar was with his troops, his wife desired the lusty young slave that had come from the north, said to him, "Lie with me." When he refused and fled from the house, leaving his cloak in her hands, Potiphar's wife cried out that she had been attacked, caused Joseph to be jailed...
...laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime Minister Yugo Hamaguchi to pay their respects to the Empress. Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, Japan's holiest relic; the Ancestor's shrine...
...Minister of War, he was a valued member of the Supreme War Council when he died. Released from the Army for the State in 1925 by special edict of the late Emperor Yoshihito, General Tanaka devoted himself to the then important Seiyukai (Conservative) Party -reputedly oldest in Japan. He soon became its sagacious leader and led it to power once more as Prime Minister...
...sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have summer opera. Said he: "Art pays dividends in beauty...