Word: briefest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than one of the 54 pages was devoted to this issue; but the newsmen exhausted this material before moving on to the other 53. In most cases, this meant only the briefest mention of the rest of the statement...
...most intimate friends were invited for services at our home. An urn containing his ashes stood upon the mantel, partly concealed by flowers. A string quartette played softly in another room-not by hymns but music which he himself had loved. A clergyman performed his offices in the briefest, simplest manner. Two of my father's most intimate friends spoke their own intimate words. The "funeral" was over. We passed tea and cakes. . . . Net cost - everything: $90. . . . Pagan? Who says so? HENRY E. BREDEMEIER Kenmore...
...plenty of 50). Marshmallows were short. So was beer. Buying a fly rod called for more negotiation than ordering a pound of opium. But ice cream production was up; the U.S. would eat 850 million gallons (mostly chocolate and vanilla) as compared to 400 million in 1945. And the briefest, trickiest women's bathing suits yet appeared on window dummies and good-looking girls from coast to coast...
News from the Canal. For two years his family had only the briefest notes from him as he made the rounds of Quantico, Parris Island, New River. He was a natural soldier, quick, alert and full of quiet, easy leadership. His buddies gave him their highest accolade-"a good marine." He was made a corporal, then a sergeant. One day a note came to Raritan on brown wrapping paper from a place called Guadalcanal. "I have arrived safely," was all it said. John's family mailed him paper and pencils, but for all the good it did they might...
Outdoor Housekeeping. We saw washing on little lines strung up anywhere, on a wire fence, between two bumpers, two branches, across the pavement. During the hot days they wore trunks of the briefest style, looked very healthy and brown, and happy too. They really behaved like boys, playing ball, wrestling, and all sorts of queer games, and how they loved harmonicas, banjos and guitars...