Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well save their breath. The words "new silhouette" for the first time in years having a literally accurate meaning, the trend is only a natural demand for more flattery in the matter of feminine clothes: the wonder is that women haven't demanded the change much sooner...
...would sooner do the first if I could...
...parties for a raffle. The united effort yielded 70,000 lire. Then dissension began. Father Bernardoni insisted that 6,000 lire be used for parish charity which could not be delayed "because we can't let people die of hunger to have a clock a few days sooner...
...Bird. But a thrush knew. "No sooner was the coffin grounded, than he was up on the brim of Edna's hat, his beak an inch from a purple cherry. . . ." For if Edna was odd, her hat was odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman...
...sooner did the first sun come out than children came out too, in swarms. Scores of the deck promenaders and loungers in the deck chairs were the parents of British girls who had married American servicemen. They were going on a visit rather than a voyage. It was a family outing...