Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very day of this speech by Belgium's War Minister, the German War Minister, Dr. Otto Gessler, said before the Army Budget Committee of the Reichstag: "The intentions of our neighbor states are not unknown to us. ... They are planning a quick and deep penetration into Germany in the first days of the next war. . . . Our only security is to compose our present army exclusively of men capable of filling officers' ranks at a moment's notice...
...name was not Scheffelbauer, but "Hans P. Leffelschmalz, the wienerschnitzer king." And Mr. Leffelschmalz had not exactly lived in Milwaukee; he had figured there in a fiction serial, written for a Milwaukee daily by one of its reporters. There was no record of a Mr. Scheffelbauer in Milwaukee, quick or dead. "Marie Drazdorf," advised the Milwaukee correspondent, "will do well not to leave her present...
...immediate present, however, there is no cause of alarm. At almost any minute of the day one may see splendid examples of courage and quick-thinking on the part of students crossing the Avenue perhaps, as long as it is possible, the situation should be endured as a breeder of Spartan qualities. There are some, it is true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average...
...gave himself up only to escape being shot down in the streets, that when he first surrendered he was allowed to take into his cell a pistol and a machine gun, that he could raise his $42,500 bond overnight if he were so inclined. Then, too, lieutenants, ambitious, quick-firing, are ready to step into departed chieftain's shoes, ready to prolong the same feuds with the same weapons. Meanwhile Leader Birger, answering no doorbells, dodging no dynamite, plays pinochle, smiles blandly, has nothing...
...reporters Seņor Pani showed his sharp white teeth with a quick smile. He was on his way to Paris, he said, there to become Mexican Minister. He pointed with pride to an announcement made last week by Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. that Mexico has paid in full the interest on her external debt to U. S. investors for 1926. Seņor Pani, as Mexican Finance Minister, put through this payment...