Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutiae of modern art. Last year the French painter. Maurice Utrillo, ten years a sober man, brought a libel suit against him and the gallery (TIME, Jan. 18. 1937) and last month won a public apology for having been listed in a Tate catalogue as dead of alcoholism. No sooner was that over than Director Manson became embroiled in another ruckus...
...half year, a number were placed on probation until the end of the year, and a sizeable group were on disciplinary pro until this mid-years. The ones punished were not necessarily the most guilty. They were the ones caught. The University treats riots seriously, and the sooner the undergraduates learn this the better...
...know that you are a very Bitter severe common Enemy to all the War veterans in the U. S. . . . Damn you Editor go to Hell the sooner the Better. I'm sure there will be Plenty Billions be left over in the U. S. Treasury to Burry you. . . . Go to Hell Editor you are a Nazi Fascist and An Anti-semit. . . . Damn you Editor go to Hell the sooner the better: so the Treasury Raiders are Ruining the U. S.? Would Like to see you 100 ft. in Hell the sooner the better, and you are calling yourself...
...president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, said he had visions of "the dawn of a period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria and started squabbling...
When newshawks turned up at the White House on the day of the conference, even veterans chuckled at the "truth party" the President had prepared. No sooner had the doors closed on the conference room where the three directors were seated in a semicircle in front of the President's desk, with Secretary Steve Early directing a battery of stenographers who took complete notes of the proceedings in relays, than a serious hitch developed in Showman Roosevelt's plans. Like a stern county magistrate, the President announced that he would take up Chairman Morgan's charges first...