Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced Sam Marx, erstwhile MGM story editor, super-supervised by Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses...
...Palestine, and the arrival at Haifa of a thousand British troops daily, there began with a vengeance the British Government's "mopping-up campaign" against Arabs who five months ago declared a general strike and began raising Ned in general to protest against Jewish immigration. In a brisk clash last week near Jenin between Arab citizens and British land & air forces, 53 Arabs and one British soldier were killed. All over the country Arabs were arrested, charged with carrying firearms & throwing bombs...
...Harrison Township on a brisk, sunny morning assembled what the Valley Daily News described as "the greatest throng in Valley history"-nearly all of Allegheny Steel's 7,000 workers and more than two-thirds of the entire population (37,000) of the Four Towns. A special train brought millmen from the West Leechburg Steel Co. plant, twelve miles away, which Steelman Sheldon acquired last July to expand his $24,000,000 company. On street corners the visitors paid 2? for a 42-page Sheldon Edition of the Valley Daily News, stuffed with local advertisements hailing the community...
...CLOAK OF MONKEY FUR - Julian Duguid-Apple ton-Century ($2.50). Costume piece by the author of Green Hell; a brisk, fast-moving but conventional novel dealing with an ill-fated expedition from Spain to South America...
...former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...