Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant to walk airily up Holyoke Street these brisk spring mornings, once again convinced that the world is essentially round, and its Creator in His appointed place. Humming a measure or two from Mendelssohn, one crosses Mt. Auburn Street, headed Yard-wards. But as one's gaze falls on the new University Parking Place, the smile of joy is likely to vanish from one's face...
...uniform. Tearing through the streets in motor cars, they rushed to the Salamis naval arsenal. A high ranking officer shot the sentry dead. Five warships including the two finest in the Greek Navy, the armored cruiser Averoff and the cruiser-minelayer Helle, were tied up at the arsenal. A brisk skirmish took place with the loyal garrison, but the ships were finally able to load shells...
...whether Folies Bergere, derived from a minor Hungarian play called The Red Cat (TIME, Oct. 1), justified such elaborate preparations, they are likely to find it an agreeable and handsomely arranged example of its type. Between the big "production numbers" at the start and finish, it sandwiches in a brisk little backstage-&-bedroom farce based on the resemblance of a song-&-dance man in the "Folies Bergere" to a celebrated financier...
...West Hall. With my breakfast I read the morning papers if I am alone, otherwise I look them over, noting what I must read later on, then I run down and get into my car and drive myself out to where the horses are waiting. An hour's brisk ride along the Potomac, a bath on my return. If I am lucky, I will be at my desk between 10:30 and 11 o'clock...
...Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians...