Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City editors of big metropolitan dailies have to be well informed. Few have their finger tips on a wider variety of facts about contemporary people and events than Stanley Walker, brisk little city editor of New York's potent Herald Tribune. Not content with doing a first-rate job at a desk that many a colleague has found exhausting, he somehow finds time to turn out book reviews, magazine articles, has now written a book, a timely newspaper-man's-eye-view of Manhattan under Prohibition. Says Star Reporter Alva Johnston, who writes the introduction: "Mr. Walker seeks...
...next two years-who would step into the shoes of un-laborite James Ramsay MacDonald? Recently that brilliant British Press Pundit Henry Wickham Steed dismissed as inconsequential all the Labor leaders "because none of them seems to have the stuff of leadership in him."* But inside the Party a brisk battle to capture Labor's executive control from paunchy, do-nothing "Uncle Arthur" Henderson and doddering "Old George" Lansbury is being waged by brisk and daring Sir Stafford Cripps, an avowed disciple in Britain of the methods of President Roosevelt. When the President in effect tore up the gold...
That Dictators Hitler and Mussolini might conceivably join forces to march through Switzerland in a future war against France was the excited notion of several Swiss newsorgans last week. Brisk old President Edmund Schulthess hastened to reassure his countrymen last week at leafy, lion-famed Lucerne. "The faith that other nations had in our military equipment in 1914 saved us from becoming involved in the World War," said he. "Today dark clouds are again arising. We shall keep our army prepared for the field...
...carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...
Articles and illustrations were as breezy as a college cheering section, as offhand and undocumented as a street-corner argument. William Hard, seasoned, voluble Washington correspondent and radio com mentator, wrote the leading piece on the Chiselers; very brisk and readable...