Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with 40 mi. per gal. promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses in competition with U. S. cars of similar price, but the importers last week hoped to do a brisk trade in "Nippy Sports" as novelties...
...Brisk and personable young "Jimmy" Warburg welcomed Franklin Roosevelt's election in 1932 with high enthusiasm, took his place as one of the New President's close economic advisers. Among the first such pilots to abandon the New Deal ship, he quit in bitter disillusionment after the President torpedoed the London Economic Conference, at which Banker Warburg was U. S. fiscal expert, and with it Warburg's hopes for currency stabilization and revived international trade. Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt...
...University of Toronto. He traveled three months in Europe as there debated a career in the church, politics, sociology. A favorite teacher persuaded him to the first. For this he spent four hard years of preparatory work under the Basilican Order. William Leonard was a brisk Republican lawyer with a Yale degree Pargo the same year Father Coughlin ventured out priesthood as instruction in English at Assumption College (Ontario). That was in 1917. By 1936, Candidate Lemke had deserted the Republicans and received and support of a radio priest who had found a career politics and sociology within the Shueeh...
...flakes melting before they touched the sidewalks. The Vagabond busy as the squirrels in the Yard, leafing through his Chaucer, reading J. Q. Adams: "Chief Pre-Shakespearian Dramas," (Shakespearian always looks wrong after a year of Kitty's Shakespere), listening to Crane Brinton in History 34a, taking a brisk walk along the Charles, breathing October...
...brisk one-day session, the Convention voted to picket all tearooms employing other than Association tea-leaf readers, appeal to President Roosevelt to push repeal of state statutes outlawing fortune telling. Cried diminutive President Perota: "Legalizing fortune telling would eliminate the quacks. . . . Clairvoyants could be licensed. They would first have to show they had ability." Then for the press the convening seers prophesied: continued Recovery, a "happy" U. S. until 1941, a 4-to-3 World Series victory for the New York Yankees, re-election of President Roosevelt. At pains to be diplomatic, President Perota hedged: "But according...