Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moved slowly through Birkenhead, England, passed through streets packed with hand-waving townsfolk to Arrowe Park, where there were broad green fields, freshly-cleaned parade grounds, stately trees. There the great flag-decked omnibuses deposited boys in khaki-colored uniforms, each with bundles, and a pack upon his back. Soon tents, 40 acres of them, had sprung up in neat, army-like rows...
...More on parade than the parading Scouts last week were Bigwigs who came complacently to watch. Birthday greetings were pronounced by the Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...
...Allous Messieurs, I am ready." said M. Poincarč, and an ether mask soon covered his grizzly white whiskers. As the great War-time President of France sank into somnolence, he did not feel Surgeons Marion and Gosset fiddling about below his bladder...
...Everything went perfectly," beamed Surgeon Marion when the exploring was over. As the anesthetic wore off and M. Poincarč regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck...
...eight teams entered in the tournament, there soon predominated: The Greentrees-a Long Island four with James C. Cooley, oldtimer, at No. 2 and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney at No. 3. The Midwests-with W. Seymour ("Shorty") Knox of Buffalo at No. 1, Barney Balding and William Blair of Chicago in the middle, Nelson Talbott of the poloing Dayton, Ohio, Talbotts at Back. The Old Aikens-the college team, three parts Yale, one part Harvard. They have played together for years. Their first teacher was Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., mother and coach of Internationalist Hitchcock. Her younger son, Frank Hitchcock...