Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through inadvertency, I had not written you sooner concerning an extraordinary report in your July 1 issue reading that blood had been transfused from a dead person into a live one. Unless there happens to be a recent procedure unbeknown to the medical world at large, it seems rather incredible how this could be done since the motivating power, the heart, has ceased to propel the blood through the circulation Of course, it may be stated that the heart keeps on beating for a variable but comparatively short time after the beats can no longer be elicited with the ordinary...
Fascists dismissed for scandalous cause have always been dropped into a well of silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...
...America where a speech of mine was quoted correctly. I had no idea, when I consented to give an interview in Walt Whitman's house in Camden (to help raise funds to make it fireproof) that I would be letting myself in for so much unfortunate publicity. No sooner did I reach New York than someone showed me a clipping from the New York World saying that I "mourned for America" (which is just the opposite of my true feelings-I have the most tremendous pride and hopefulness for America) and that I was jailed in Boston. A little...
Broadway Nights. The Brothers Shubert, playing an infallible system which calls for sprigs of vaudeville and bouquets of decoration, find it profitable to keep at least two musical shows going at once. No sooner had their Pleasure Bound closed than they prepared Broadway Nights to companion their A Night in Venice. If a blindfolded playgoer were ushered into one, then permitted to look, he might easily mistake it for the other...
...sure that the present régime in my country is doomed to failure sooner or later. In fact I am thinking of returning within a year after a stay in Italy, where I know I have the friendship of King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Mussolini...