Word: briefest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal Star's breezy Correspondent M. H. Hamilton cabled: "Britain is notoriously uninterested in Canadian news, but the complete lack of interest among Press and national leaders I have interviewed over Bennett's volta face is amazing. . . . The London Times, always friendly to Bennett, has the briefest possible outline of his speech and obviously regards it as an election measure of little importance. . . . The Manchester Guardian doesn't mention it. ... I told Wickham Steed [scholarly editor emeritus of the London Times'] that Bennett had attacked individualism in business and requested a comment. He replied, laughing...
...briefest of little bows, his left hand on his hip, his baton tapping smartly on the nearest violin stand and the audience was still, ready for another Toscanini miracle. For a second he closed his eyes. Then his baton cut sharply into the air. First passage was for the violins. The Maestro's stick seemed suddenly to become a violin bow playing tenderly across imaginary strings. His left hand molded phrases, shot up like a policeman's warning to keep the pianissimos. Most conductors make an elaborate show of signaling to the different players, whipping up climaxes. Toscanini...
...Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together shots being perforce somewhat old. When Patcher-Together Jack Cohn sought to see II Duce in Rome, expecting praise, he was politely accorded the briefest audience, was not asked even to sit down...
...came to getting jobs was when one line wanted mess boys. But they had to be British subjects. That night, Henry Wetter Jr. and Phelps Newberry Jr. visited dance halls. The dance hall people did not seem to realize they were Hotchkiss men. It cost 10? even for the briefest dance. You had to buy a lot of tickets at once, and there were funny charges for extra attention from the ''hostesses.'' Roommates Wetter and Newberry found their money dwindling. Next morning they tramped Sixth Avenue, looking in the cheap
...with an iron fist! ... It has been shown that the enemies of the State were only pretending to be dead. . . . Whoever in the future lays violent hands on an official of the State, a policeman or a Storm Trooper, must know that he will pay for it in the briefest possible time. ... It is entirely beside the point whether the act is followed by death or merely leads to injury...