Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your book review of Period Piece: Etta Wheeler Wilcox and Her Times, p. 64 of your Feb. sth issue, recalls a meeting with Mrs. Wilcox. . . . Another infantry officer and myself ... in early Aug. 1918, on a short leave in Paris, had become fed up with the overly anxious feminine French dinner companions at every restaurant we entered and tried the Hotel Petrograd dining room-G. H. Q. of the Y. W. C. A.-Americaine...
...appearance of the men, the actions of everyone and the air of gloom she had found in Paris since her arrival. She said our appearance of fresh, healthy, crusading youth impressed her so much that she wanted to tell us so. Were we both mortified and proud! After a short chat she left, stating she was bound for England. Later I wrote to her from the front and received several very interesting and highly treasured letters...
Miss Claudius could be mean. She was always chasing children out of her littered yard, sometimes caught and beat them. Once she saw a man short-cutting through her yard, made him pay 10? toll. Miss Claudius probably saved the dime. She spent almost no money, had no heat, light, water in her house. For a bathroom she used the Ladies' Room at the Lincoln Savings Bank. At closing time one afternoon, the employes heard strange noises in the Ladies' Room. Miss Claudius was inside, reading aloud from a law book. She knew and could quote...
Conclusion. . . . For a time we grew impatient. . . . The cry was for short cuts. Leaders with adroit capacity for capitalizing such moods of urgency began to say that men could not eat liberty or wear constitutions or be sheltered by bills of rights, that action and immediate results were what really mattered. The pressures of need led us to think, to act, and to vote in forgetfulness of the fact that the hasty actions of political expediency, on the hunt for quick remedies, can wreck a nation if its remedies ignore the inviolable principles that underlie the stability and productive efficiency...
...Porcellian wears a small gold pig on his watch chain, a long tweed jacket, tight flannel pants and a short haircut, generally contents himself with a gentleman's three Cs and a D in his studies. Most inviolable tradition: Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian. Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated. When a Porkie marries, fellow Porkies always gather round him after the ceremony and sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded...