Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funds.¶Sliced a fast $258,500 out of the previous administration's final bud'get, vowed to whittle away $250,000 more. ¶Forced the resignation of the city purchasing agent because he bought $10,000 worth of water pipe without asking for bids. (Lee drew brisk criticism by naming his own campaign manager as the new purchasing agent...
Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. A brisk account of Grant's two-year metamorphosis from green and panicky officer to cool, hardened commander...
...blood." he preaches, "the newspaper industry mumbled on about its sacred right, freedom of the press, and then gutted that right." To Condon fans, the book's redeeming feature will be some grimly comic episodes: the concessionaire who, as crowds watch a would-be suicide, does a brisk business in "JUMP" and "DON'T JUMP" signs; or the drunken and thoroughly fraudulent hero of the Battle of Britain who solemnly praises "the little people" of England, as if he had not seen "a single Britisher who stood over two feet nine inches...
Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. A brisk account of Grant's two-year metamorphosis from green and panicky officer to cool, hardened commander...
...fictions. His accounts of prodigious sexual exploits seem to have been less Frank than Harris. Now, 70 years after Harris rocketed to fame in London, British Author Vincent Brome has recovered a nose cone of truth from the oblivion into which Harris' reputation has fallen. It is a brisk and entertaining book in which Biographer Brome wisely leaves judgment to the men who knew him best-Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw...