Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Senator William E. Borah, mighty Republican from Idaho, was quick to answer them, to announce that he would fight to oust them. He, no mean constitutional lawyer, believed the Senate has the right to oust Messrs. Smith and Vare, a right which he likened to the right of self-preservation...
...Treaty of Versailles. Within her dagger-thin hull will pulse engines of 23,000 horsepower. Slicing the waves at 36.8 miles an hour (32 knots), equipped with double torpedo tubes, the new ship is a formidable naval weapon despite her popgun batteries of 8.8-centime-tre (3.4-inch) quick firers...
...just been assured by Polish monarchists assembled near Nieswiez on the estate of Prince Albrecht Radziwill that Poland needs a monarch. The Marshal, impulsive, quick as a Bengal tiger to pounce on what he desires, surprised everyone by returning to Warsaw without actually taking steps to order a crown...
Hearst Editor Brisbane, ever as quick to deplore the lack of U. S. air preparedness as he is to laud his political hero, Calvin Coolidge, deftly interwove these two fetishes into a neat parable last week...
Serv-el, Electrolux. Forehanded, President H. B. Seaber of the Serv-el Corporation (electric refrigerators) last week took quick advantage of the publicity which the American Gas Association gave to the production of cold by means of gas heat (TIME, Oct. 25). His company is making 200 gas-cold machines, named "Electrolux" for immediate sale to gas companies. By January it will be making 100 daily for public sale; is already advertising...