Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the brisk gavel of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, its new Moderator, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. wound up in Cleveland last week its annual General Assembly. Work done...
...Century of Progress Art Show. Three out of every five pictures were new to the exhibit. But where the 1933 show, as a record of U. S. collecting, was topheavy with French works, this year's exhibit put U. S. painters to the fore, furnishing spectators with a brisk parade of native artists from Copley to Marsh...
...disturb the calm tenor of his daily life. Maintaining the burning interest in all varieties of subjects which has caused him to write books on everything from Hypnotism and Suicide to Marxism and the problem of small European nations, he still reads voluminously in four languages. He loves a brisk canter on horseback, or a romp with his small grandsons, children of Charles Revilliod, who only a few years ago used to play naked as jays in the gardens of the presidential summer palace near Prague. Receiving reporters last week Grandfather Masaryk admitted that Willa Gather was his favorite author...
...York, May 31--Business got so brisk aboard the U. S. Boggs, communication ship of the Fleet, that the captain had to call a halt on messages to sailors. One girl sent twelve messages to twelve sailors--on different ships, another asked a gob to "Phone at once, Pete's out of town...
...cannot have Christ and war at the same time. I renounce war." Such a fervent outpouring of words came last week not from some pacifist who makes a living on the lecture platform, not from some battle-scarred veteran who had staggered back from the depths, but from a brisk and business-like Man of God named Harry Emerson Fosdick. During the War Dr. Fosdick had "stimulated raiding parties to their murderous tasks'' from Y. M. C. A. huts behind the lines. Today as the personal pastor of the two younger John D. Rockefellers in their...