Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question was: should the platform be adopted by the convention before the nominating speeches began? Dry men said, yes, certainly: you cannot name a candidate before he knows what he is to stand for. But Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, quick and trig, said: "Our common enemy, who has just dispersed his forces at Kansas City, is waiting ?oh, how eagerly!?for the old-fashioned friction that has unfortunately characterized so many Democratic conventions in the past. . . . The G. 0. P. is depending upon us to 'spill the beans' here. Let us disappoint them...
...front. Few had heard of Sarazen when he won; no one had heard of Hagen when he came to fame in 1914. Practically unknown were the two golfers who on the first day at Olympia Fields led all the rest. Henry Guici was one, a tiny player, dark-haired, quick-tempered. Frank Ball tied Guici with a 70. No one knew anything about him except that he was a cousin of John Ball, famed Britisher. Either Guici or Ball might win, of course, but the bookmakers didn't think so. And the bookmakers were right, for on the second...
Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...
...until last week, however, would even potent Mexicans have dared to cry "Rapscallion!" at steelyeyed, quick-triggered General José. Then, suddenly, President Plutarco Elias Calles, bull-necked and bushy-browed, took pen into heavy fist and dashed an angry signature onto a proclamation: "To my greatest surprise, and assuredly that of the entire country, it has been discovered that one of the highest officials of the Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles...
Mainly, The Front Page depends upon atmosphere for its effect: the presence of lazy, autocratic, hard-boiled newspaper men, their brisk telephone talk with editors, the gay, courageous casual crockery with which newsmongers ply their often disreputable trade. Funny, quick, exciting, and, despite its exaggerations, highly informative, The Front Page seemed full of good reporting. Hildy Johnson was Lee Tracy, out of Broadway; the women's parts were few and not imposing; Phyllis Povah cleverly impersonated a chewy little tart...