Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "- What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini? A d'Annunzio? No. The Daily News (New York), upstart, rich-quick, gum-chewing little brother of the Chicago Daily Tribune, made this preparation for Luis Angel Firpo. He " has acquired the Mediterranean grace of stride, suavity of conduct, beauty of gesture and an inimitable pose before the human gallery in all he does...
...this occasion the bull was in a bad temper before he was let into the arena. The moment he was released he became maddened and jumped into the enclosure where the amateur fighters were waiting. Quick as a flash they jumped into the grandstand. The crowd took fright and fled panic-stricken to the top tier of seats. The grandstand gave way. Four people were killed. Twenty-five were injured...
Adverse critics of the Administration were quick to point out what they identified as " a magnificent political stroke to capture Southern Republican support and hence delegates to the next Republican Convention." They shook their heads over what amounted to "almost an announcement that Coolidge is out full force for the 1924 Republican nomination." They muttered " patronage power" and spoke of "a Chief Executive who stoops to measure men by the political yardstick...
This frightened the remaining 1,150 bandits. They seized their arms and proceeded to run away. Regular soldiers armed with every conceivable kind of a gun, from a revolver to a howitzer, opened fire on the bandits, who were quick to retaliate. The regulars suffered 50 killed and many wounded, but 750 bandits were killed and most of the barracks blown...
...Groups of the most famous riders of the Western rodeos came with them to ride or fall for the prize money. This year the purses aggregate $50,000; the riders will include: Mike Hastings, Pinky Gist, Yakima Canutt (half-breed; world's champion in 1921), Howard Tegland, Roy Quick, Paddy Ryan, Soapy Williams, Ike Rude, Powder River Thompson, Hugh Strickland, Mabel Strickland (world's woman champion in 1922), Bonnie McCarroll, Rene Halfley, Bonnie Gray. They pay their own way and come under the following instructions: "If you do your part, your share in the gate receipts should take...