Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europe's best known oil tycoon is potent, mysterious Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell. As far as the British Government is concerned, Europe's most useful oil tycoon is brisk, smooth-faced Sir John Cadman, chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., and an associate of Sir Henri's in distributing oil in the Orient...
...Calles been in Mexico City the ceiling of the night club L'Escargot would almost certainly have remained intact last week. Hard-working General Calles' son Alfredo, 24, mightily enjoys a good party. When sufficiently primed he has the urge to shoot off pistols. After a particularly brisk melee in the Hotel Regis, year ago. Father Calles is said to have banished Son Alfredo to a distant hacienda far from the sound of saxophones or popping of champagne. With papa away last week. Alfredo was on the town again, shot four holes in L'Escargot...
...younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most of Miss Walker's girls had to be put up that night at an inn, a country club, in homes in Simsbury and Farmington...
Business is most brisk in glasses, galoshes, scarfs, and green bags, according to Apted. At the present time, the office is holding seven pairs of spectacles for possible claimants, and two and one-half pairs of gloves. Second-hand books are a constant source of trouble. Frequently, the name inscribed in the book is that of the owner once or twice removed. A few weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim...
...John's College at Annapolis, third oldest in the U. S. (founded 1696), was until 1923 a military institution. Surprisingly, it had no military president until then, when Major Enoch Barton Garey, a brisk, sturdy graduate of St. John's and West Point, military science professor at Johns Hopkins, became its head. Also surprisingly Major Garey, though his manual of arms textbook is standard in U. S. colleges, abolished military training at St. John's. Major Garey worked for the cultural improvement of St. John's, but he and the trustees disagreed on policies...