Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrewd, rich Ohio publisher who brought with him the U. S.'s fiscal big guns: sleek Governor George Leslie Harrison of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, owlish U. S. Treasury Adviser Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague (recently Adviser to the Bank of England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury and in the Bank of England, started conversations to determine at what relative point pound, dollar and franc can and should...
...Refrained, after brisk debate, from withdrawing from the Federal Council, and from repudiating the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry which was financed by Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. ¶ Came out for peace and disarmament, flayed Repeal and sweatshops. ¶ Elected as president Dr. William Shattuck Abernethy of Washington's Calvary Baptist Church...
...Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service.† Justice Russell sternly denied Jacob Itzkowitz's application, launched a brisk denunciation of C. C. N. Y. as a place where the taxpayers, "the orderly and decent element, are educating a bunch of young Communists and Socialists." At once C. C. N. Y.'s president, alumni and friends burst into print, flaying Justice Russell for an impertinent flouter. Later...
...stomachs of large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots the reporter who, when he gets out of the hospital, marries Julie. Far from...
...crew outrowed the Freshman eight by three lengths over the 1 3-4-mile course in the Basin yesterday afternoon. Stroke Drury of the Jayvees kept his beat down throughout the race, and the upperclassmen were at no time forced to exert themselves beyond the extent required in a brisk workout. Both crews performed well, and, although the 1936 shell is not an outstanding one, its chances against Navy and Penn on Saturday are not unfavorable...