Word: quicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every one is asking how long it can last. But Mr. Laval proves the truth of the proverb that threatened men live long. Some say he is lucky, but his luck has recently been that of a man who thinks quicker than his opponents and is always one move ahead...
...politician can tell farmers this truth and remain a politician. But a great man can encourage and make easier and quicker the essential shift of farmers, or farmers' sons and daughters, into industry. No-one who has not mixed up his ideals with his ambitions, hypnotized himself into believing the best thing for the country coincides with the best thing for personal, political success, could advocate as a permanent policy the subsidy of farmers to induce them not to produce what the country needs...
...home talking with upset Congressmen by telephone. On Monday, two conferences with Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee having failed to turn any means of untangling the snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this as the way to get home, passed a hard & fast resolution to adjourn at midnight. But as twilight set in the President learned that an unpleasant fly was buzzing in his adjournment cup- Huey Long. The Senator from Louisiana...
...given the job of supervising all manuscripts which came into Columbia Pictures Corp. But that sort of job does not last long in Hollywood, particularly if the incumbent is an electric personality given to quick cigarets and quicker decisions. From Columbia he moved to Fox, from Fox to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Then he went back to the publishing business for a while, becoming editor of Photoplay, and recently "Western editor" of Liberty. The unhappy, pouched eyes of Ray Long grew unhappier. Panic-stricken, the man who once could command $100,000 a year and almost any editor's chair...
...have all thought, afterwards, of the cruelly perceptive remark we might have made, if we had just been a little quicker. How it would have pierced and hurt, how it would have silenced some parish pest! Unfortunately, there have been times when the poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...