Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imperialist Woodhead, Thus every page of Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead's memoirs carries the brisk imprint of the Imperialist, the white man of business who finds the Chinese "anti-foreign," and has a hankering sympathy for the Japanese because today they are a people with the virility and strength the White Race once showed in bursting into China, and establishing itself with special superior status in the "treaty ports." Not only does Editor Woodhead take many illustrious Chinese to task, but he relates a wealth of anecdotes. Of the humble Chinese family whose robber son was being strangled slowly...
...Daniel Alfred ("Call Me Dan") Poling is world president of the biggest Protestant youth organization (Christian Endeavor), editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with the spellbound...
...Hoare-Laval Deal to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia, mainly at the expense of Ethiopia but leaving the greater and by far the richest portion of the Empire intact (TIME, Dec. 23), Sir Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months...
...decision was written by Justice Chester Almeron Fowler, a handsome, upstanding, straight-thinking gentleman who golfs, fishes, camps, walks 24-miles to his office every day and will probably celebrate his 73rd birthday this week by a brisk game of curling. Famed for his verbal vigor, old Justice Fowler growled in his insurance case decision...
...State Department which ordered "inquiries" in Moscow, the most that could be done since the man sentenced to be shot was no U. S. citizen. The moment this degree of U. S. interest was evinced. Russia's sensitive Dictatorship ordered a stay of execution and a brisk retrial of Hearstman Mikhailov by the Court of Appeals which altered his sentence from Death to eight years imprisonment...