Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type. Her chief weakness seems to be that she is given to sudden uprushes of emotion around men, either pro or con, and, when they are pro, she generally ends up with a little more patchwork. This failing leads to a purple scene with the specialist himself. However, he is stupid about it and repulses her advances. This part of the book...
...fortnight prior the 88-year-old War Prime Minister had returned to Paris from his summer cottage, told friends that he did not expect to live through the winter. Early last week his valet found the old Tiger in bed, breathing heavily, unconscious from a sudden heart attack. Worried specialists rushed to his bedside, administered oxygen, strychnine, summoned his son, his daughter, his grandson. They privately gave up hope that the old man could live through the night. They forgot the implacable will of Georges Clémenceau. The man who carried France through the dark winter...
...about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign occupation will be . accomplished in a short time. Reparations will be reduced by important yearly sums. . . . "This development may now, all of a sudden be cut off. A referendum has been introduced which . . . seeks to create an appearance that Germany could now force her wishes and demands on the victors in the World War. . . . "The entire referendum is based on transparent dishonesty. It is based on the wild claim that previous German foreign policy...
Music is brilliantly employed in "Porgy." Not only are there the organized funeral chants, and, at the other end of the scale, the futuristic rhythms of the band, but there is Porgy's sudden turn from prose recitation into a chant as he speaks early in the play, and Serena's prayer for the delirious Bess to Jesus, to "send the devil out of her like you used to do," with the rising refrain of "time and time again!" in which the others gradually join...
...Health also pronounced on kissing last week, issued a guide for kissers. Among other "don'ts" were the following: 1) Never kiss in a crowd, but if you must, take a hot mustard foot bath and avoid drafts if you feel "all in" afterward; 2) guard against sudden changes in temperature when kissing; 3) at a party where "postoffice" and similar games are played, be sure to gargle frequently...