Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ballroom, had made $60,000. Slim, trim, gently mustached, he is a darling of the jitterbug trade, has over 2,000,000 regular listeners a week, makes $20,000 a year extra for personal appearances, at $300 per. The Make-Believe Ballroom idea has spread to other cities, offers brisk competition to network stations wherever it exists...
...bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr. Levin has taught 30 men belch-talk. His method is simple, takes some patients only one or two days to learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with...
...start. Last week, in a paneled room off Independence Square, the directors of Curtis sat down before President Fuller to consider the Plan again. All, including brisk, slender Mary Curtis Bok and her ruddy-cheeked son, Gary Bok, agreed they wanted no Plan that might precipitate a stockholders' scrap. Curtis bankers sat down to figure out another Plan, were rumored to be planning sacrifices for the common holders to make up for the wounds that the preferred is bound to have to take...
...strong, clean, upstanding nation; its government is democratic, it has always minded its own business, and held no designs of aggression. Finland is the land of Sibelius, the land where the Olympics were to be held; the land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they have meant a great bloc of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but their enthusiasm to steer clear of the European turmoil...
...Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...