Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports reached Paris last week that the little lads of the Fascist Balilla (Italy's militarized Boy Scouts) now chant this brisk, stirring air as they march along shouldering small bolt-action rifles of the latest Italian Army type. To cut off the head of Marianne is, of course, to decapitate France. The fact that France and Italy quarreled at the London Naval Conference (TIME, Jan. 27 et seq.), coupled with the hostile tone the Italian Press has taken since, made French papers play up under biggest scare heads last week certain routine naval developments at home...
...London brisk Alexander Wilkinson Haycock, a Labor M.P. born in Ontario, but now representing an English constituency, was caught up short while addressing the House of Commons in his mother tongue, Canadian. Interrupted peppery Walter James Womersley, Conservative, addressing the Deputy Speaker...
...returned to the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon after he was employed by the Bell Telephone Company, in which connection for the next ten years, he had charge of the delicate process of making bustling businessmen out of college graduates. Big Business has quite evidently touched brisk, white-haired President Wickenden. Upon his arrival at Case he decided that the school needed a livelier song. Not content with one that Composer Werner Janssen turned out, "he sat down and dashed out another set with more punch." Asked how he liked Cleveland and his new job, President Wickenden said...
Candidates for the end positions were given a brisk drill in snaring forward passes by E. H. Bradford '26, end coach, R. H. O'Connell ocC, regular end on the 1929 team, and S. C. Burns ocC, second string end last fall. The backfield men were supervised by E. L. Casey '19, head backfield coach, and W. R. Harper '30, fullback on the 1929 eleven in handling the ball, and bucking imaginary lines, while the lines were put through their offense manouevers by coaches W. A. Cleary '15, C. J. Hubbard '24, and John Donovan...
...reasons are given for Peiping's revival. One is the brisk increase in tourists from foreign countries. The other is that North China has been entirely free from civil wars since June 1928, when the Nationalists entered the city...