Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty, resourceful Mme Andrée Viollis was last week the first journalist to enter Afghanistan's freshly captured capital Kabul (TIME, Oct. 21). Her paper Le Petit Parisien had staked her to an airplane. With quick, appraising, bright French eyes she took the measure of the Conqueror, potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion...
...tall, lean, Indian-like. Legend says that during some 20 years of speculating he has four times pyramided a $1,000 stake to $500,000, and lost it. Since July, Bear Danforth has clawed feverishly, often turning from bear tactics to buy a stock for a quick play. Although new Danforth fortunes are set at $5,000,000 or $7,000,000, or $10,000,000, knowing friends claim he is not the decline-causing bear of Manhattan gossip, but a shrewd trader who follows trends. Married, Bear Danforth has three children and a Bellanca airplane used chiefly for trips...
...allowed. Before the afternoon was over narrow-hipped Miss Kinuye Hitomi covered the same distance in 12 sec.-a world's record for ladies. Young John Straley of Paulding, Ohio, said to Umpire Clyde Crone what many sandlot players often long to say to umpires. With a quick fist Umpire Crone did what umpires often long to do to fresh players. Straley fell awkwardly, did not get up. Policemen escorted Crone from the field, held him in $5,000 bail for manslaughter. On Oct. 20, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published on its front page, surrounded by a heavy black...
...tongued Gascon Cyrano actually lived, and in those melodramatic days. The Rogers biography reveals the real Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55) as "swordsman-libertine-man-of-letters." Author of Walt Whitman the Magnificent Idler, Biographer Rogers now finds his pen cluttered at every turn with a man whose short, quick-tempered life-rhythm was the polar opposite of Old Walt's. Cyrano's nose was "long, high-bridged, and bony, curved like a Moorish sword-blade, somewhat cleft at the extremity, and immensely arrogant." Believing the world mocked at his appendage, Cyrano began making diligent study...
...these experts will fall the task of discovering why Prohibition agents are quick to shoot down liquor suspects on sight. Likewise they will delve in the susceptibility of dry officers to be bribed out of their enforcement duty...