Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received with considerable alarm in Paris. The Catholic press, allegedly because General Sarrail is a Freemason and a Radical, bitterly attacked him for his administration of the Syrian mandate, charging that the defeat of French troops was solely due to his negligence and mismanagement. Sarrail's friends were quick to point out that the Catholics were actuated in their bitterness by purely sectarian motives; for they had nothing but praise for Marshal Lyautey in Morocco, although, so said these critics, he was far from blameless in causing the Moroccan...
...stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said to his family: 'Give me a word in one letter that means a food, and it isn't T. Quick. Give up? X.' (Meaning eggs for those who do not get the accent)?Blanche Ring...
...case of the firm is said to have established a record on the New York Stock Exchange for quick and complete resuscitation after insolvency...
...Story. Monsieur Ripois rid himself of his palling mistress quite as simply as she would have shed her soiled blue wrapper. He yawned at her solicitude, snapped at her tenderness, sneered at her complaints, assumed high dudgeon when her desperation became vindictive. His sooty little conscience glowing at her quick repentance, out he marched, free to take a new lodging, walk the London streets after work and supper, fondle his mustache, boldly scrutinize passing women and wait, thinking himself a very audacious chap of the world indeed, for further chances to cheat life of amorous adventures where the women gave...
When Slattery, with his smile of a contemptuous faun, came two-stepping toward the weaving, crouching Shade, spectators averted their eyes. They hoped Slattery understood enough of mercy to be quick about his business. In the first round, Shade actually managed to hit him lightly, on the jaw. Slattery seemed puzzled. In the second round, there was another flurry from Shade. Slattery was obviously taking his time to get the range. In the third round, Shade crouched lower. He came out of his corner almost on his belly. From this position he started a blow which began in the resin...