Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire which gutted Europe's largest gambling haven, Frank J. Gould's $6,200,000 Palais de la Méditerranée (TIME, Dec. 4). Though two Palais employes were originally charged with arson, the fire, police decided after all, was due to "carelessness." Not without brisk haggling the French syndicate which leased the casino from Mr. Gould and had insured itself against loss of profit resulting from such events as an act of God, settled with the 20 French and 20 British companies which wrote the insurance. "We are getting," boasted the syndicate's imaginative...
...Brisk Bob Hutchins did not leave his brilliant position as right-hand of Yale's President James Rowland Angell* and go to Chicago just to be feted as a boy wonder. He went to lead the way out of that mediocrity which critics have found to be the chief characteristic of U. S. "higher education." His reforms were radical. But they had barely begun when Depression came to smite down the income of all universities...
Finally, all dopesters were convinced that President Scott, able money-raiser, will be exalted into a chancellorship and brisk Bob Hutchins, as president, will actively direct Chicago's dream of creating "the greatest University centre...
...Reacted with dominant Conservative cheers and impotent Laborite scowls when brisk, cheery Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced an abrupt shift in the emphasis of Britain's current naval building program from small cruisers to large...
Berlin's vast Sportpalast rumbled one night last week with a great gathering of the "German Christians," Nazi Wing of the Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the super-Nazification of the Church. Their presiding officer was brisk, sleek, pomaded young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder. Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg. Their prime hot-head was one Dr. Reinhold Krause. Meeting a few days after the 450th birthday of their Church's founder, Martin Luther, they proceeded to juggle ecclesiastical dynamite. According to Nazi Pastor Krause, German Protestantism needed a "second Reformation." He submitted three...