Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They say that Liberty, five-cent fiction weekly of Col. Robert R. McCormick and Major Joseph Medill Patterson, proud overlords of that opulent vulgarian, the Chicago Tribune and its get-rich-quick little grub-sister, the New York Daily News, was established as an outlet for accumulated moneys upon which the income tax was becoming burdensome. Loosely speaking it was founded to "lose money...
...Street, who was Ada Hilt of LaPorte, Ind., charming, kind, quick-witted, lately died...
...collar manufacturers whom Mr. Van Heusen had solicited were surprised at this quick sweep to popularity. So, no laggards, they at once produced semisoft collars of goods like the Van Heusen material. He sued them for infringement of patents and got $3,000,000 upon compromise. John B. Bolton expected to receive 30% of this sum for his work on the fabric. He got nothing, sued. Last week there was another compromise, whereby Mr. Bolton received more than $1,000,000 from Mr. Van Heusen...
...ball into the cage for his team's first point. In the third period Chittenden, charging upon Goalkeeper Salmon, who was holding the ball, drove him back into the goal for a score, and with the elevens deadlocked four minutes before the final whistle, Everett and Anderson scored in quick succession...
...article mournfully titled "The Decline of Eating in America," Mr. Macauley says "Eating on this side of the Atlantic has become one of the lost arts." The problem Harvard faces also seems to be a national one--the result of America's special ogre, standardization. Cursing cafeterias and similar quick lunch places whose proud boast is a meal a minute, the epicure goes on to comment regretfully on the days when dinners were both edifying and edible. Like Christopher Morley he is a strong advocate of the Three Hours for Luncheon Club...