Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bellboys went through a brisk workout yesterday, and are in good condition to meet their traditional rivals from New Haven...
...hard and stiff is broken and everything comes flowing in light and warm. See what I mean?'') Characters, sharply delineated at first, develop inconsistencies. The plot at times becomes foggy. Most readers will end the book a little baffled-feeling as if they had been shown a brisk bit of action, but forced to view it through pink-tinted ground glass...
...varied; if for that reason only, both of last week's biographies make interesting reading. A little carried away himself by the brilliant instability of his subject's period, Author Jones adopts the method of Guedalla and Strachey, devoting much space to contemporary modes and fashions, interspersing brisk epigrammatic surveys of political movements, quoting newspapers, hotel menus indiscriminately, in the effort to keep not only his subject but his background alive in the reader's mind. The method adds sparkle but leads to trivia (example: Moore's "duel" with the Reviewer Jeffrey which, interrupted...
...iron-grey hair flying, his firm jaws clenched, Conductor Artur Rodzinski mounted a podium in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center one day last week, and with a brisk downbeat of his baton started a new orchestra through its paces. He soon exclaimed: "Marvelous! The strings are fantastically fine. ... I doubt if there has ever been assembled anywhere, at any time, a new orchestra that promises so much for the future...
...major part of the book is given over to Morgan's career. This, with its hard, brisk sea-scenes, its sudden shocks of death, is uniformly convincing. Interspersed in the chronicle, however, are snapshot glimpses of life on its various planes on the Keys: War veterans sent to build the Keys highway, punch-drunk and turbulent, brawling in one of the bars; writers from the artists' colony amorously intriguing; rich yachtsmen, cabdrivers. These candidoes, written too deliberately from the "slice-of-life" point of view, too fortuitously presented in the plot, are not always so fortunate. But most...