Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People resent the sight of a corpse because it reminds them of their own mortality. Cherishing the memory of the dead one, they treat his clay with reverence although secretly detesting the stiff and putrefying souvenir left behind. If a corpse must lie in the same room with the quick, its face is covered with a cloth or dissembled with cosmetics. Newspapers have recognized this unwillingness to look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been...
Engaged. John Adams Mayer, editor of Town Topics, and Miss Dorothy Quick...
...otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player south of Panama...
...Gatti-Casazza understands English but slowly and speaks it more slowly still) led them down a corridor to his office, one reporter hung behind, then dashed to a window and peered down just in time to see the door of the big car close behind a dapper, short and quick-moving man in a derby...
HALF-TOLD TALES-Henry van Dyke-Scribners ($1.50). If any man must moralize, let him be full of years and honor, and of a wit quick to sharpen points grown dull through lack of dispute. Dr. van Dyke surely qualifies under all three headings. He abjures Envy...