Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sage has often remarked, Radcliffe girls are frequently heard, but never seen. This morning's voice from across the Common comes as the latest development in the new, and hitherto unannounced Radcliffe-Lampoon union. This sudden domestication of the last celibate Jester sets in relief the bachel-orhood of the CRIMSON's Vagabond, who though romantic, is surely not gullible...
...fast. Last month much smoke over Burns Bros, indicated trouble in the boiler-room of management from which should come the steam that makes for profits. One cloud of smoke was the resignation of President Wertheim, the election of Noah H. Swayne as his successor. Another cloud was a sudden, alarming drop of all Burns securities. Another was the election of several Lehigh Valley Coal Corp. men to the Burns board...
...took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering his daughter Pamela. The patriotic instinct which prompted the choice of Melba, short for Melbourne, for a stage-name persisted all her life. She often harked, back to Australian scenes and sounds, the sudden rise of storms, the bright flash of parrots' wings, the cry of magpies at dawn. Friends say that she knew she was incurably sick this autumn, wanted to get home...
Judge Lyle's candidacy is an attempt to profit politically from his sudden headline reputation as the judicial scourge of Chicago's gang world. From the bench and with newshawks closely covering him he made a great dramatic and futile attempt to have the city's 26 "Public Enemies" arrested and held in exorbitant bail under an old vagrancy law (TIME, Oct. 13). So erratic and unstable that he had scant support from lawyers, Judge Lyle focused his campaign on the charge that Mayor Thompson was in league with the underworld, that Gangster Alphonse Capone had contributed...
...boss a small property he had just inherited, and because he had changed his vacation to go take a look at the land. Then he found somebody else, using his own name, had arrived before him. Then he saw Her. After that he was carried along on a sudden swirl of adventure that might have swept away a less sturdy hero, that should carry you with it willy-nilly...