Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office-buying filled the air with acrid odors. Someone traced down several of these odors and, strangely enough, found them sadly true. That someone was Isador Kresel, respected member of the New York bar, an unfailing public servant, and daemoniac detective hounding the paths of careless judiciaries. There ensued sudden resignations, mysterious disappearance and, still more strangely, several convictions. The innocent trembled with the guilty as Justice walked without its customary blind staggers...
...afternoon last week there was a great dinging and donging in the belfry of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Rochester, N. H. Factory workers, puzzled by the sudden outburst, paused in the street on their way home to ask questions. Rev. Jonathan N. Armistead, all aglow with happy excitement, loudly explained: "It's to celebrate the Wickersham Commission report. We just heard about...
...were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery chains. Swift & Co. last week availed itself of this release and announced a forthcoming line of canned fruits & vegetables. When the stockholders and potent directors of Armour & Co. met last week after the sudden, shocking death of President F. Edson White, it seemed at least probable that the last active Armour in the business, Vice President Philip Danforth Armour III (Lester Armour got out last December), would be stepped up to direct Armour destinies in the new era. But after five stormy hours they...
Whereas these raw gobbets and undigested morsels of knowledge floated by this too sudden immerston in the Pierian Springs are unpleasant to see hartily regurgitated over a cup of coffee. Whereas a three hour examination can only serve to uncover the lack of knowledge rather than its presence. Wheres these examinations are thus only methods to jam the wind-pipes of the unwilling. Whereas the resulting mental dyspopsis has never yet produced a Carlyle and Whereas, dyspopsis or no dyspopsis, everyone is pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone...
Those who know Princeton's President John Grier Hibben are often surprised by such sudden sallies from his apparently innocent mind. He exemplifies, certainly, the charming, scholarly type of college president rather than the boisterous and administrative. For this reason he was chosen, as a compromise candidate, after Princeton trustees had been deadlocked for two years in trying to elect a successor to the provocative Woodrow Wilson. But Dr. Hibben took up the reins discarded by that active dreamer with no lack of confidence and soon was working out his own dreams of a university...