Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember, it may be recounted that Shaw assembled four of the finest physicians in London and made three of them ridiculous in the acid comments of the fourth, snow-haired dean of the profession. Woven through the ridicule is the dilemma. Shall the great doctor who has discovered a quick cure for tuberculosis apply it to a worthy, unsuccessful fellow man-of-medicine, or to a blackguard artist who can paint great pictures. He cannot cure both; his perplexity is enhanced by his passion for the artist's wife...
...wiseacres have been dining at the public for weeks to describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...
...following year, the newspapers observe that the Elis were quick to path, and commend the style of play that brought one Yale field goal to win over three Harvard touchdowns that failed of goal. Under the old scoring system this plan was in force; the idiosyncrasies of the system are seen in 1881, when Yale did not score, but won because Harvard made four safeties...
...qualities of his character and his manner of life. He made a friend of every student who sought him for advice or direction, and gave his time willingly to serve interests not his own. He had the gifts which make social intercourse pleasant,--humor, readiness and felicity of expression, quick appreciation, and the resources of a wide culture at the command of a ready and retentive memory. When he died the world lost much more than one of its great scholars...
...HEART AND MY FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening...