Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When intermittent storms did come, they were destructive. In Connecticut two million dollars worth of broad-leaf tobacco was shredded to ruin by a terrific hail storm. Sudden cloudbursts in Iowa in undated crops, swept away roads and bridges, delayed trains...
...President Hoover summoned to the White House Postmaster General Walter Brown and his four assistant postmasters general, told them something had to be done to reduce these ever-increasing shortages, to put the postal service on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. What concerned the President chiefly was the sudden leap in this year's deficit and the prospect of similar shortages to come. The Post Office Department has not been on a paying basis since Frank H. Hitchcock was Postmaster General (1909-13). In 1924 the deficit was 13 millions; in 1928, 32 millions. Fiscal...
...pair of field-glasses and returns the stare. This somehow gets him acclaimed hero by the crowd. In the Roof Garden he is about to further prove his heroism by ascending in a balloon as escort of Cinemactress Romerantz. Miss Romerantz, however, cancels the ascent since, due to a sudden newspaper strike, her flight would lack publicity. Thus prevented from an ultimate proof of his heroism, Caspar descends to the street level, takes a ride on a ferryboat with his gypsy sweetheart, Paras Veka...
...Black-out: a skit ending with a sudden extinguishing of all lights on the stage...
ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES- Elinor Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). According to her publishers, Elinor Wylie arranged for publication this slim volume of tristful poems on the day, last December, before she met her sudden death from a paralytic stroke (TiME, Dec. 24). She had found the title in John Donne: "But, because Angels could not propagate, nor make more Angels, he enlarged his love in making man, that so he might enjoy all natures at once, and have the nature of Angels, and the nature of earthly Creatures, in one Person...