Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Spain gathered from all states. A flock of automobiles was waiting to carry them down the streets, but the old soldiers laughed. "To hell with those things," they remarked; then they put on blue or light brown uniforms and marched afoot along Woodward Ave. Brass bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead of waving, had spit tobacco juice...
...worth of plate glass and merchandise in their fellow-citizens' shop windows. They badly damaged the Palace of the League of Nations, to which the U. S. does not belong. Police protected the U. S. Consulate and U. S. Consul Somerville Pinkney Tuck avoided trouble by a quick-witted remark. As he moved, unrecognized among the rioters, a woman stuck a nasty, leering face close to his and shouted loudly: "We wish to kill this American Consul pig!"* "Yes," said Mr. Tuck, "he is a rascal," and went home...
...told he had no right to jail them. He retorted: "But they're in jail, aren't they? You've got to act quick when you're facing a crisis...
...bless my soul, sir, what did the scoundrel say to me? He said: 'Me no care what you say, Blitishman. Chinaman get back plane plenty quick or whippy Blitish army. How you like that? Chinaman wanty only protect his "interests," as you say in China...
Kiss Me. Although Desiree Ellinger (formerly of Rose Marie) and the rest of the cast strove valiantly, they proved unavailing against a 5 & lOc musical comedy production that seems to have been assembled by an auctioneer, tied together with a shoestring and marked down for quick sale...