Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Always in England the Derby vies in importance with any political event. This year the election was almost forgotten with 70 million dollars wagered on the race; with Cragadour, the favorite, sick of a stomach trouble and daily bulletins being issued on the state of his health; with the sudden scratching of the second favorite, Midlothian, because of the death of his owner, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, last of the Great Victorians and the man who succeeded Gladstone as Prime Minister...
...University of Des Moines came sudden stillness, peace. There were no classes for a while. But then six studious students got a court injunction restraining the trustees. Classes resumed uncertainly...
...twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine, the men talk of poisons. There is a sudden feminine scream. The men rush out. The host quaffs his liqueur, slumps in his chair, dead...
Small bands of "Red Front Fighters," as the organized Communists called themselves, made sudden sallies against the police, darting out from grimy alleys, overturning trucks and taxicabs until police bullets exploded the gas tanks of the upended vehicles. Communist girls were observed among the "Red Front Fighters" with red handkerchiefs round their heads, flashing knives in their hands...
...able Frank Ernest Gannett, publisher of 17 chainpapers,−father of-the Teletypesetter (TIME, Jan. 14). When Mr. Graustein completed his testimony before the Commission, Mr. Gannett called it "in the main, admirable," explained more fully his deals with I. P. & P. Last week, with a sudden and theatrical gesture, he canceled the deals, freed his papers from the menace of the "Power Trust." He wrote Mr. Graustein...