Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Minister Pelenyi vigorously denied that Hungary was making its proposal as a "feeler" for other governments and recalled a similar arrangement the U. S. made with Austria in 1930, his otter touched off a brisk reaction In the Capital...
...Brisk, efficient Guy Thomas Buswell has been photographing readers' eye movements at the University of Chicago since 1920 and has had as much to do as any man with developing new wrinkles in teaching children how to read. Three years ago Guy Thomas Buswell decided that children were not the only ones who needed instruction. He rounded up 1,000 adults of varying degrees of literacy and for two years tested them intensively. He wanted to find out what happens to people's reading habits and ability after they leave school. Last week his report, How Adults Read...
...modern-dress Julius Caesar still playing to capacity audiences in its eighth week, last week Actor-Producer Orson Welles turned again to the gusty Elizabethans. Bawdier than three burlesque shows, but too disarmingly frank and deftly acted to be offensive, The Shoemakers' Holiday struck Broadway like a brisk wind. Good Queen Bess, never a prude, must have liked it too, and roared like a sailor...
...Postman Always Rings Twice James Mallahan Cain wrote a brief, brisk best-seller in which philosophic overtones could be dimly heard above the rattling melodrama of the plot. Last week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice...
Born 52 years ago in Haverhill, Mass., brisk, self-assured Harlan True Stetson was once a physics instructor at Dartmouth, an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan. He has traveled on five solar eclipse expeditions, belongs to a dozen reputable scientific bodies, including astronomical, physical, optical, geophysical and radio engineering societies. His colleagues have voted him an asterisk in American Men of Science for distinguished research. At present a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has actively developed the new science of cosmic-terrestrial relations, ably popularized his specialty...