Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aged, penniless inmates still wore their woollen shirts, long winter underwear, ate oatmeal and corned beef hash, and worked in the sun-baked fields. In five days 39 of them dropped dead. Missouri had over 400 deaths. And one day during the hot spell there was a brisk snowfall at Colorado Springs...
...last two weeks before the Legislature adjourned, Senator Long's brisk management of Louisiana's affairs bore him rich legislative fruit...
...November 1902 Barney Oldfield was a brisk young sport who had made a fair reputation as a bicycle racer and just got a job with Henry Ford. When Ford perfected the automobile named 999, which he thought might become the first in history to go a mile a minute, he set about to select a driver for a five-mile race. Barney Oldfield had never driven a car, only ridden in one twice, but he asked for a chance to drive it. After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile...
London played lavish host to the brisk, bandy-legged engineer of the French war machine, terse, terrier-like General Maxime Weygand...
...Brisk to the point of confession, Fog Over Frisco is not the best of Director William Dieterle's pictures. Typical shot: Bette Davis begging her anxious fiance to tolerate just one more swindle...