Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel, copper, cotton? In case of hostilities, would an embargo be placed on them, too? Washington wiseacres thought not.* Ever since Benito Mussolini began his dangerous animal act featuring the terrified Lion of Judah and the terrifying Lion of Britain, U. S. cotton and copper producers have enjoyed a brisk business with Italy. According to Capital observers, if the Presidential definition of "implements of war" were enlarged to its logical boundaries to include such raw materials, Washington would become a pandemonium of log rolling, back-scratching and lobbying which would knock the neutrality program into a cocked helmet...
...stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie and his pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs. Scotch Plains looked on Crempa as a hero, the impotent sheriff...
...front cover) Chicago's brisk, businesslike George William Cardinal Mundelein, 63, spent his days last week between his office, his residence, his cathedral, his villa at Mundelein, where on a nine-hole course he golfs in the high 40's. Boston's stocky, rugged William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75 and in the best of health, attended to routine business, looked in on a priests' retreat at St. John's Seminary. Philadelphia's austere Denis Cardinal Dougherty, 70, who lately bought a $215,000 house at Overbrook, was traveling quietly in Europe. The fourth U. S. Prince of the Roman...
Meantime it was revealed that Dictator Stalin was doing a brisk cash trade with Dictator Mussolini in war materials shipped on Greek vessels out of Black Sea ports, to the perplexity of Communist stevedores who have been led to understand that the Third International scowls at imperialist wars...
...eyes of one after another, introduces a mass of realistic detail. The first of three novels dealing with the wild Fury clan, The Furys begins with the sort of situation on which most novels end. is distinguished by its sustained intensity, its brilliant characterization of Mrs. Fury, its brisk, unadorned, effective prose style, its few powerful, panoramic scenes of violence and disorder during the strike. Although readers may be repelled by the detachment of James Hanley's writing-so chill it sometimes seems close to scorn-may dislike the general meanness that marks his minor figures, they are likely...