Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather against the people of Texas who supported her candidature. Mrs. Ferguson in seeking election was actuated by the very real desire to see her impeached husband vindicated. She made her personal grievance the chief plank in her platform. The sentiment of the Texas electorate was stirred, to the quick, and Mrs. Ferguson was elected. Her failure may be regarded as a rather salutary object lesson in the evils attendant upon unthinking balloting...
...family said that if I did not marry Mr. Lewis they would shoot me. ... I told the parson to be quick and get it over with. So we were married and I threw the ring at him at the church door and left him flat...
James Rowland Angell, President of Yale: "Lately, Director Richard Swann Lull of our university's Peabody Museum received a telegram from Texas saying that Old Bill, 22-year-old, 2,500-pound Asian armored rhinoceros, worth $30,000, had died very suddenly. Professor Lull, quick to reply, told Old Bill's owners, the Ringling Brothers Circus, that he would be glad to have them stand by an agreement made years ago by the late P. T. Barnum and renewed by the Ringlings when they bought out Mr. Barnum, that the corpses of their rare animals should come...
...necessary. Now that Dean Briggs is gone, "Copey" is the last of a vanished style in Harvard professors, in professors anywhere, for that matter. He himself is Dickensian, with his piercing glance to identify a caller or passerby, his two bachelor rooms in the garret of old Hollis, his quick replies which from a less amiable nature might be crabbed but from him seem wry and sprightly, and his remark in the introduction to his anthology: "As for Christmas Eve, it won't seem like itself if Mrs. Lowell stops allowing me to bring my book...
...when Ellison counted twice in the early stages of the first period. Sherman, who started at goal for Dartmouth, allowed two easy shots to pass him. Dartmouth evened the count at the end of the second period, when Hardy duplicated Captain Ellison's feat, scoring two unassisted goals in quick succession. The second period saw both teams setting a furious pace and the University counted twice, putting the game on ice. The Dartmouth six tired perceptibly in the final period, and the University playing a defensive game had little trouble in preserving its lead...