Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
...popularity of Their Majesties?or perhaps because of it?misguided subjects contrive to scratch initials and other devices on the Royal bodies surprisingly often. Policy seems to dictate that the Crown shall not proceed against such petty offenders. Every blemish is patiently and skillfully obliterated (with sandpaper and quick drying varnish) during the night after it is discovered...
...either listened in or read the speech as soon as it was printed.* There was not much in the speech that any alert publisher could not have prophesied beforehand. President Hoover's biggest project is Law Enforcement. He urged the Press to be a quick public conscience to that end. Freedom of the Press to discuss public questions is a U. S. cornerstone. President Hoover acknowledged this, adding earnestly: "I put the question, however, whether flippance is a useful or even legitimate device in such discussion. ... Its effect is as misleading and distorting of public conscience as direct misrepresentation...
Fortunately for the Coast Guard, the pursued craft, found stranded and abandoned up the river, was a real rumrunner. Even so, the reckless rattle of Coast Guard bullets stirred afresh the anxiety of many a law-abiding yachtsman who had experienced the service's quick gunfire, its brusque raids, its salty backtalk. Protest after protest against officious bedevilment has been sent to the Coast Guard's squat red-brick headquarters in Washington. Invariably the Service has upheld its men for doing their duty...
...Devil of able, quick, dramatic Louis Auguste Gustave Doré which is most famed today. The jeunesse Doré was lightly employed in drawing for Parisian magazines, notably Journal pour Rire. But Doré, an excellent draughtsman, had his serious moments. In the France where he lived (1832-83), Satanism was in the air. There was Baudelaire, whose hero was Milton's heroic Satan, and there was Huysmans who had studied the Black Mass. It was fashionable to wear black clothes and look mysterious. Doré, too, turned to Satan, but objectively. He illustrated Dante's Inferno...