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Dewey wanted no nonsense, no barnstorming, no parades, flags or placards. His first two speeches, as he began his 6,700-mile jaunt to the West Coast and back, were short, crisp, and to the point-good examples of well ordered, factual courtroom talk. His tactical approach was to present one issue in each speech and ram that issue home so hard that the New Deal would be driven into long explanation...
...been inspecting four Jap tanks, which were still burning. One of the tankers' crisp, upraised hands stuck out of his turret as if in supplication to a power beyond his reach...
...released the names of most of the top commanders in Lieut. General Omar Bradley's U.S. First Army. General Bradley's Army includes the V Corps, under Major General Leonard T. ("General Gee") Gerow, 1943 commander of U.S. ground forces in Britain, and the VII Corps, under crisp, enthusiastic Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, former commander of the 25th Division, which relieved the Marines on Guadalcanal.* Other commanders...
...superb a colorist as Brahms was in music. Even those who spoke, with some justice, of Eakins' lack of interest in design, could scarcely fail to note the monumentally simple success of his portraits, the linked flow of limbs and bodies in The Swimming Hole, the crisp, frugal elation of the 16 horses' legs in The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand...
...Uninvited (Gail Russell, Donald Crisp; TIME...