Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment Vag wondered what was the quickest way to the fame and fortune which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, free-lance writer; Vag., special adviser to the State Department; Vag's best selling memoirs. After...
...Octogenarian Bradley it was an elixir. Winner of four Kentucky Derbies, he has been living for the day when his green & white silks will again "get there the quickest," and thereby establish a record not likely to be broken. In Bimelech, whom he named after the Biblical warrior, Abimelech (dropping the A because it is an old Bradley custom to B-name all horses), Colonel Bradley has great faith...
First Socialist act was to turn down a motion approving U. S. economic assistance to the Allies as the quickest and surest way to prevent war's spread to this country. Instead, the delegates adopted a plank of strict isolation. Other chief concern of the delegates was unemployment. Keynoted Maynard C. Krueger (rhymes with eager) of the University of Chicago: "We Socialists are not interested in trying to make the Capitalist system work. Hoover and Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production...
...winner to be awarded a full-length nude of herself by Painter Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, R. A. Commented the official German radio: "The best people of London amused themselves by very strange contests. During [a] trial ... it came out that the idea of these contests was: who is the quickest in undressing? Especially the young ladies of London society took part in these contests. The girl who was the first to be naked on the stage got the first prize." Fine...
...would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment Vag wondered what was the quickest way to the fame and fortune which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, freelance writer; Vag, special adviser to the State Department; Vag's best-selling memoris. After...