Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nationalistic Soviet anthem (TIME, Jan. 3) was widely played in the U.S. last week. No sooner had the music been published in the U.S. press than U.S. orchestra leaders fell all over themselves to introduce it. Winner by a hair was apparently the CBS Report to the Nation program, which set its orchestraters to work the minute the Soviet piano score arrived, had the anthem on the air within 48 hours...
...Eisenhower-had already said that S (for Surrender) Day will come for the Nazis in 1944. But Franklin Roosevelt was being deliberately pessimistic. His request for $100 billion assumed that Hitler would still be fighting in full fury at the budget's end in June 1945. Victory sooner might possibly mean a 30 to 40, or even 50% cutback in war production. This was what war planners guessed-but no one knew for certain...
...coated sugar. Glibly combining heart interest with brain operations, Playwright Franken (Claudia, Outrageous Fortune) keeps an assortment of problems churning. Sore beset is Miss Franken's doctor heroine (Barbara O'Neill) whose neurologist beau (Philip Ober) doubts whether a woman can qualify as a good surgeon. No sooner is he proved wrong than he starts doubting whether a good surgeon can qualify as a woman. The poor girl, meanwhile, is in an awful pickle about disregarding professional ethics in order to save a little boy's life...
...Sure, the Allies had hoped to be in Rome sooner than is now possible...
Dolly De Milhau, wartime correspondent for Town & Country, reported from the Florida front: "Next time you're wondering where anybody is, I suggest you come down to Miami Beach, park a camp chair . . . and just sit and wait. Sooner or later everyone you've ever known or heard of is sure to wander by. ... As for the maid situation, there are no maids in Florida. Everybody does her own housework. The usual household consists of a nurse for the children, a cleaning woman two or three times a week, and Madame with her sleeves rolled up the rest...