Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look, he started North toward Manhattan and his Connecticut home...
...return bout to a fighter who had previously defeated him, a crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited for the chance, which Ross was too clever to give him, to use his devastating right hand. After fifteen brisk but ineffective rounds, Ross walked to his corner, Mc Larnin turned the handspring with which, if he is able to move at the end of a fight, he invariably expresses his conviction that he has won. The judges cast conflicting votes. Referee Donovan agreed with McLarnin, gave him the decision...
...keel was not enough to win the first race against Yankee in the final series. In her second race Skipper Vanderbilt outmaneuvered Skipper Adams at the start to win by three minutes over the international course. A squall from the north when the boats were running before a brisk southerly breeze blew Yankee's parachute spinnaker flat against her mast, broke the jumper strut and forced her to withdraw from the third race. After the fourth, which Rainbow won in a fresh breeze over a 30-mi. triangle, by two-and-a-half minutes, observers were prepared to hear that...
Wall Street had fun last week at the expense of Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas and his latest pamphlet The Coming American Boom (TIME, Aug. 27). For a time the brisk, dapper London stockbroker, whose record as a market forecaster has been well publicized, displaced President Roosevelt as the most-discussed man in the Street. One day when stock-market trading dwindled to the lowest level in twelve years, brokers said it was because everyone had stopped to read Major Angas' prediction. Few days later when trading swelled suddenly to more than 1,000,000 shares and prices soared...
...peace officers and firemen tried to think. Assistant Fire Chief James Bolz had an idea. He telephoned to nearby California Institute of Technology, pleaded for an explosives expert. In a few minutes a lone automobile slid to a stop at the scene. Out stepped Professor William Noble Lacey, the brisk embodiment of Science, to the rescue...