Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rupert Hughes, short, stocky, quick in his movements, almost jumpy, has an unusual store of nervous energy and mental vitality. His life has been a succession of quick successes; but these have been backed by tremendous effort. After his regular college course at Western Reserve University he took an M.A. degree at Yale, There are dozens of successful novels to his credit and at least a half-dozen plays, among them the markedly successful Excuse Me. He has an extraordinary memory for facts and to talk with him is almost like talking to an articulate and well-colored encyclopedia...
...deck looks broad to any one standing on it, but it is a mere strip to the anxious pilot. As the wheels of the airplane touch the landing surface, the pilot drops a large hook which engages with wires laid across the deck so as to secure a quick stop, smaller hooks engage with wires running along the length of the ship and prevent the airplane from turning...
...want to get by, both representing labor. The description of the finale, the uprising of the unions, reads like a transplanted French Revolution. It is superbly handled. The vivid impression one gets of the hysterical mob rule, the just for revenge against 'the scab', and the quick change from hate to respect for their enemy after the fires have died down is unsurpassable. In conclusion a word should be said about the drawing of some of the characters. Pegano and "Ma" Pegano the fat Italians who run a very questionable hotel are priceless; Mrs. Worth, an old English lady with...
...plant. In 20 minutes I had every damned one of them in jail. I was told that I had no right to put them in jail. I said: ' But they're in jail, aren't they? Now go and get them out.' You've got to act quick when you're facing a crisis...
...Marechal Joffre: "At the funeral of General Manoury, made Marechal de France after his death, I gave him entire credit for winning the battle of the Marne by loading his army into the taxicabs of Paris and by a quick sortie turning von Kluck's flank...