Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years previous to the curtain to write popular songs in Parisian Tin-Pan Alley. Here, the son, Mr. Geoffrey Kerr, has been fortunate enough to awaken with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come to the Count to attempt to reconcile the Father and son, and by the by to collect 7,452 francs that the son owes him. The Count refuses to surrender. Finally for business reasons he agrees to settle...
...assassin's cloak, sprang last week at Senor Adolfo Diaz whom the U. S. has recognized as President of Nicaragua (TIME. Nov. 29). The President was riding alone in his carriage at 11 p. m. when two men armed with machetes rushed upon it from an alley. Quick-witted, Senor Diaz leaped out of the left-hand door of his carriage as the men wrenched open the right-hand door. A machete hurtled, split the leather of the President's left heel, bit into his flesh. The coachman, faithful, sprang from his box, fell upon the attackers. Maddened...
...Come and look quick. The show will soon shut down for a year. Delectable slums; peep-shows of half-blind women and their broods basting mountainous piles of garments, making artificial flowers, beading gowns, and supported by charity. Take a good look before the curtain is drawn...
Among the January books, Professor Kuno Francke's "German After War Problems" is outstanding. Professor Francke's volume comments on the intellectual and moral revival of Germany since the war and gives an analysis of the forces which contributed to Germany's unexpectedly quick recovery since the war. Professor Francke's intimate insight into the German point of view has made this latest volume on post-war Germany particularly illuminating...
...crouched between two pillars of the lobby. They noted too that their cigars that morning had a softer feel, a fresher tang. David A. Schulte had begun business for himself and already was anticipating the contentment of his customers. They ought to appreciate fresh smokes, he had reasoned, and quick service and low prices. They did. Now D. A. Schulte Inc.'s retail stores number 300, many of them at locations he himself picked years ago, as he walked up and down Manhattan dreaming of future selling success...