Word: soon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon after dawn as is seemly, the pajama-clad small fry whoop into "Grandpa's" bedroom, bounce on his bed, shout "Merry Christmas," and dive for the bulging red stockings hanging from the mantelpiece. After breakfast (smoked sausages and scrambled eggs) the President and the immediate family motor around old Lafayette Square to the grey granite St. Thomas Episcopal Church...
Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...
...Soon after, a pale, lanky rural school superintendent, E. Ross Wyatt, 36, was jailed, charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...
...loss went into trips made by U. S. citizens in their own automobiles. But a big piece was lost to U. S. bus lines and a big reason for the loss was the failure of the railroads to provide up-to-date accommodations for day coach passengers soon enough or to charge competitive fares. In the 1938 recession eastern roads actually upped fares. Bus lines quickly placed orders for new equipment...
Then he met sweet, unaffected Eugénie, who "was like the song of the nightingale. ..." A fast worker, Clisson "soon imparted to his passion a quality of force and inflexibility which belonged to him." Here a big chunk of the story is missing-probably destroyed by Napoleon for reasons of discretion rather than taste...