Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading figure in the American labor movement, or, rather, by his own act he recognized that that leadership had passed from him to. others. He was trailing after Johnston of the Machinists, Stone of the Engineers' Brotherhood, Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and several others who were quicker than he had been to see how the bloc tendency in American politics suited the purposes of organized Labor. It was they -not Gompers-who had made Labor the factor it was in the Congressional election of 1922. And they carried the bulk of organized Labor along with them when...
...quick, strong and clever; Pancho was quicker, stronger and cleverer. The Terror would rush in and shoot his fists out with a snappy jerk, but those fists seldom hit anything except thin air. The sullen brown boy was .like a flea on hot bricks. He fought with his body close to the floor, thus reducing his five ft. one inch to something under three ft. As the big Bud approached, Pancho would spring into the air, punching, pounding and pulverizing that unfortunate Terror from Terre Haute...
Coach Stevens reorganized his first two eights yesterday afternoon and attained what he believed to be the "best crew this year,--a crew getting more length out of its stroke and possessing a harder and quicker catch" than any of its predecessors...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, speedway and airway ace: " I told reporters in Atlanta that the demand for quicker transportation has ' made ' the automobile and will in turn make the flying machine. Also that I prefer airplane flying- ' There is less likelihood of accidents...
...time for the quicker-witted "con" man comes when the cargoes are unloaded at the wharves. Then in little wide rooms, perhaps with the persuasion of a revolver, the purchaser gladly pays $50 a case for the liquor. Brazen daring, cool savoir faire, are essentials in the successful applicant. . . . Perhaps these rum fleets serve a useful purpose--at any rate they attract the riff-raff of law-breakers and give the city police a needed rest...