Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduction of taxes. Some said his motive was to delay the Senate's vote on the Boulder Dam bill. But in the light of an announcement by Representative Snell of New York, trusted Administration man, it looked as though President Coolidge's ever-quick solicitude for the financial condition of the Government might have transcended the advisory and become legislative. At least, the President took note of the Snell announcement and warned Congress that there might be no tax cut if care were...
Banker Giannini is indeed a dominator of dollars; but his quick, kinetic brain must have rejected instantly the nonsense with which L'Impero welcomed him to Rome, last week, as follows...
...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...
...felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress uniform. Behind the President were grouped several Commissars (Ministers) clad as simply as he, and behind them, filling the station square, stood rank upon rank of Soviet infantry and a detachment of Red Cossack cavalry...
...Dramatic Club has caught now and again the vivid quality that Flecker wove into his lilting verse, the subtle thread of his thoughts. Caught it occasionally in the scenery, occasionally in flashes of deftly read lines, but more often in the incidental music and the quick flow of large masses of players. Something of the singing quality of the lines Professor F. C. Packard has infused into the play by some very acute direction. Of the players, Miss Doris Sanger is most effective, but Mr. Leatherbee as the romantic Rafl, Mr. Perry as the Caliph and Mr. Harrington as Hassan...