Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doodles are smart dogs, perhaps smartest, quick to learn and play tricks, apt at turning somersaults. Stresemann has been called "Germany's Lloyd George" because he has turned go many tricks and smart political somersaults...
...Brown Derby first met Boss Brennan in San Francisco in 1920. Both were experts in friendship; quickly and together they fashioned one, Al and George. A fortnight ago George lay dying. Al got daily bulletins. When George died, Al was almost the first to telephone the relict and her daughter. Busy, he bustled through the most pressing business, put aside his speech, got his friend, Contractor Kenny, to come up with the "St. Nicholas" for quick passage to Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train...
Fortunately the White Star Line score was immediately countered by its rival, the Cunard Line, one of whose skippers was quick to curry popular favor by declaring that his observations showed nothing wrong with the Gulf Stream. Finally the North-German Lloyd's Commodore, Herr Johnsen, scathingly observed that of course the observations of such fast ships as to the currents they were cutting through must naturally be treated with reserve...
...first disciples included thoughtful men puzzled by the frequent inefficacies of regular medicine, which considered the food and drugs absorbed by the body all important for health and cure. But more numerous were the hodgepodge who found in uncritical osteopathy a quick means of earning easy money as "doctors." Osteopathy stirred the opposition of regular medicine, and osteopathy fought with club and clout...
Next, he comes snorting into the tent of Sharon Falconer, a pretty, vicious and successful evangelist. The audience is permitted to hear his harangues for heaven and then to overhear the back stage scene wherein Gantry gains quick access to the couch of this ignorant and lusty lady. With her he goes to Atlantic City, to inaugurate a pier tabernacle, the biggest in the world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue...