Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Landing at Shanghai, Colonel Thompson and his entourage sped to Peking without accident, saw there the blazing blue-tiled Temple of Heaven, and the Forbidden City, now moldering with decay. Returning to Shanghai, there to take ship for Japan, Colonel Thompson was informed that no sooner had his train passed the railway bridge just south of Nanking than it was dynamited, wrecking a subsequent train...
Josef Hofmann, pianist: "There are many trials in my profession, involving as it does rapid and constant traveling. No sooner was I entrained from London for Folkestone, Eng., than my train was derailed, just outside Charing Cross Station. I was the first to leave the train; I walked the track swiftly back to the station, keeping a wary eye on the electric rail; I motored 70 miles to Folkestone, arriving in time for my concert...
Strenuous Days. Her Majesty no sooner reached the Ritz (in a fur trimmed coat of beige and green velvet with a close fitting hat) than she sallied forth again to the establishments of Patou and Redfern (in a regal purple hat exactly matching a long swishing cloak). Behind stepped Princess Ileana, demure in a blue frock, a leopard fur clasped about her throat, a small tan silk...
...whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always go to that refuge free and have pinmoney, he knew that she would sooner go to the river...
...more familiar with its doings. I dare say that the similar organizations at Harvard and Yale are quite as successful, though I'm inclined to believe that they are not as consistent as my favorite. Nevertheless they all give a prospective actor the needed experience which brings success much sooner after graduation than if he had not acted in college...