Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father Tacchi-Venturi, upon raising his eyes from his papers, saw a pale, demented face and a hand which grasped a slender, dagger-like paper knife. Quick, the assassin sprang. Quicker, the Jesuit dodged. As a result the knife barely lacerated the neck skin of Father Tacchi-Venturi. Meanwhile the sleepy porter had valorously collared Signor De Angelis...
...dying. . . . Quick! Bring the flag of Italy! . . . Let me be wrapped within its glorious folds...
...newest experiment in winter resorts has opened at the Harvard Club of Boston in the form of a quick-time tan applicator. Here in a little room with half a dozen cots the club members, clothed only in goggles, repose beneath the strong ultra-violet rays of a mechanical sun. In the corners of the room, to give a tropical effect, potted palms are distributed...
...face of such frank testimony, one must choose between the quick extermination of each successive Freshman class or the purging of adulterated sugar bowls. This issue cannot be dodged, not longer handled, as it has been in the past, with gloves. Furthermore, action must be immediate if the present Fresh man class is to be saved. There is absolutely no alternative...
When the jury went out, the judge, not expecting a quick decision, left the court. Three hours later, he was fetched from a nearby village and driven back to the courtroom. The jury had reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty...