Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty Il Re Vittorio Emanuele is a Neapolitan, but not typical. True citizens of Naples are swart, merry fellows, quick to laugh, quicker to bluster, and apt to be stirring and shouting at all hours of the day or night. His Majesty, on the contrary, is cold, a martinet; but all the same he was born at Naples in 1869. Therefore thousands of Neapolitans lined the quays last week in their finest frenzy as the royal yacht Savoia, paced by four destroyers, swung into the Bay of Naples. A "favorite son" was home, pandemonium held carnival...
...pages are broken with epigrams: "Good servants are trustworthy and it is doubtful whether there is a great man in history who would not, as a valet, have pilfered from his master." The style is quicker on its feet, less mannered, than before. Occasionally, as indicated, Author Arlen squares off too noticeably for a purple passage, a witty remark...
...take over all the land in the country. The Kerensky government had itself been in favor of such a move but intended to effect it in an orderly manner. The Bolsheviks on the other hand advocated immediate seizure and the people were in such a frenzy that the quicker course was by far the more popular. The Reds thus had two trump cards, immediate peace and immediate seizure of land; the people did not support the Bolsheviks because they were such, but because of the two panaceas they offered...
...multiplication and division of compound fractions. "Find 83 1/3% of 460." Clackety clackety-clackety-clack, went chalk in the fingers of a shrewd urchin. Clack-ety-clack-et . . , but before the blushing adult competitor had finished his third tier of multiplication, the urchin stood triumphantly at ease. It was quicker when you recognized...
...There is more liberty for youth here than in France," declared Madame when asked to compare the American boy and girl with French youth. "And it develops character quicker. The young girl in France is kept in seclusion until her marriage. If I had a daughter, I would raise her in the American fashion. All but smoking--it is wrong for girls. As for night clubs, I think that the modern boy and girl should be crusted. There must be confidence in one's blood...