Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next three scenes described the contrasting influences of North & South. Sailors on a southbound cargo ship jumped about in brisk, energetic fashion until plump sirens with fishlike feet got aboard, started playing guitars and wriggling their hips. Officers forgot to give orders then, left the bridge. In a tropical port even the luxuriant, overgrown pineapples and coconut trees abandoned themselves to jogging amiably about. But back north again the dancing took on new, hectic energy. Drably uniformed workmen hopped about automatically, rebelliously, before a stock ticker largely labeled. A gasoline filling station, two bathtubs and a ventilator took part...
Ethel Leginska still plays the piano far better than most members of her sex. With her new-founded orchestra last week, she played Mozart's A Major Concerto, bent low over the keys one minute, stood up the next, urging her women to keep to the brisk pace she had set for them. Her showmanship captivated a great audience. Critics thought that her players, considering their inexperience, responded very creditably to her tense, determined leadership...
...armistice between China and Japan, he replied, "Saturday." When the interviewer attempted to explain that he was talking about world events and not the time of his shirts' reappearance the celestial said, "Thursday, then." The conversation seemed to have reached an impasse, but Wing followed up with a brisk right to the chin, "They got big guns, hey? Twelve inches! Some big guns! We only got little guns, so." The washer of the linen demonstrated the size of the Chinese guns with his hands, leaving the iron to rest on a shirt, but his gesticulation were cut short...
...straight political fight, with only two names on the short ballot and no side issues. Boss Maschke's Republicans ran Daniel Edgar Morgan, an honest, able administrator who succeeded William Rowland Hopkins as city manager in 1930. The Democratic candidate was 38-year-old Ray T. Miller, brisk, red-faced Cuyahoga County prosecutor. At Notre Dame Ray Miller played one end on the football team in 1913 while Knute Rockne was playing the other. His brother, Don Miller, was one of the "Four Horsemen" in Notre Dame's famed 1924 backfield. In his campaign Democrat Miller ignored Republican...
...plot in which a French cadet (Jeritza) disguises himself as a woman, foils the British enemy and emerges a lieutenant. There are the usual marches, waltz tunes, love duets and. as in the remodeled Boccaccio, asides in colloquial English. Boccaccio was good for eight performances because the production was brisk, because earnest German singers looked funny cavorting about the stage, because light opera becomes the Viennese Jeritza. Donna Juanita should prosper briefly for the same reasons. The production is even faster, more up-to-date. The Metropolitan's conservative ballet appears barelegged. Jeritza is gorgeous in a black & gold...