Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing puts Novelist Roberts into a fury quicker than historical distortion. Since he feels that much U. S. history has been deliberately distorted or deliberately left unwritten, he has existed for some years in a high state of historical dudgeon. The margins of his history books (he owns the largest private Revolutionary War library in the U. S.) crackle with expletive and epithet: "What an ass!"; "Nuts!"; "The louse judgment of a literary louse!"; "Beef from a moose...
...entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...
...line want the British to win. The masses of French people believe the British to be their one hope of salvation. The Vichy Government, on the other hand, while no fonder of the Germans than the littlest Frenchman is, believes the Germans are going to win the war. The quicker they win it, the better it will be for France. After that it will be up to France's rulers to make the best possible deal with the Germans...
They were men of all sorts: lean and broad of beam; men of integrity and men like rats; obscure men and famous; of fixed prejudices, and fixed ideals. They filled Philadelphia like a flood, jamming hotels, squeezing into elevators, pounding on restaurant tables for quicker service. Wherever they were, they argued, worried, plotted. Some were wise guys, some were simpletons. All were Americans...
...agreed that the danger of a world-wide war crisis would rise toward a maximum between 1939 and 1940 and he thought that by that time there should be someone younger, quicker and better equipped to meet the urgencies of possible warfare without delay in the White House. But he spoke of that rather as his own personal problem than America's."-(H. G. Wells-after lunching with President Roosevelt two years ago-in Collier...