Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chop" is pidgin-English for "quick." The Chinese call these implements kwaitsze, literally "the quick ones." The etiquette governing their use is elaborate. To lay them crossed upon the bowl is a sign that one wishes to leave the table. During a period of mourning chopsticks are usually put away, and the mourners eat with their fingers...
Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...
Opening the game with a fierce attack in the first period which netted them five goals in quick succession, the Freshman skaters last night swept to their tenth victory of the season in downing the Yale Freshman hockey squad by a 10 to 4 count on the Arena ice. This is the third successive win over the Ell first year ice teams in three years...
...songs and trick dancing. It seems a shame that she should run the risk of spoiling the memories of "Pom-Pom" and "Lady Billy". It seems a shame that any actress should play to the bright footlights of musical comedy in the decline of her popularity. The audience is quick to forget and quick to show that it has forgotten...
Finance Minister Count Volpi entered the Chamber and crossed with quick nervous strides to the Ministerial Bench, where Premier Mussolini awaited him. The Premier shook his hand with vigor. The Deputies rose to their feet and cheered him. From the public galleries as many cives Romani as could squeeze in roared their approval of the Volpi-Churchill Italo-British debt settlement (TIME, Feb. 8, COMMONWEALTH...