Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London postman ambled along Charter House Street, turned in at the office of The Diamond Corp. "Good morning," said he to a clerk. "Registered parcel for you. sir. A bit brisk out, sir. Just sign here, if you please, sir." He dipped into his brown canvas sack, passed out a paper package no bigger than a dornick. He touched his cap, ambled out again into Charter House Street. Because the package was addressed personally to Louis Oppenheimer, brother of The Diamond Corp.'s potent Board Chairman Sir Ernest, the clerk took it unopened to his office. Mr. Oppenheimer unwrapped...
...frequent criticism of brisk Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's "Oxford Group Movement" or "First Century Christian Fellowship" has been that its members are too exclusively preoccupied with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework...
...that the "Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania to have to receive a foreign monarch. Yet undaunted from Bulgaria came brisk little Tsar Boris and Tsaritza Ioanna who is a daughter of the King of Italy. What if they should be assassinated...
...Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into the snow-covered Rockies...
...years ago Poland's Reno was a small Calvinist church in Wilno. So brisk was its business that several bishops were tried and fined for bootlegging divorces. The traffic passed to the Orthodox Church, proceeded scandalously. The usual method of getting a divorce was to pay some clergyman 500 zlotys ($90). In Warsaw alone 1,200 divorces were granted during the past two years...