Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times, it is a rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
Wisconsin, which won the mid-U. S. contest two weeks ago (TiME, March 9). failed to warble as satisfactorily as some of the others. The judges (Ralph L. Baldwin, Arthur Bodansky, Kent Schindler) came to a quick conclusion that Yale had sung best, Princeton next, Missouri next...
...spats, genial, just a bit aristocratic -had advanced his career another step. To be sure, the probability is that, as Speaker, he will have less power than in his former post. The days of Thomas B. Reed, when the Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois (he may have weighed more, but, as he himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared a quorum present, although the Democrats refused to answer to the roll call...
Finis J. Garrett, Democratic Floor Leader, was quick to point out possible evils which might arise from this departure?the possibility, for example, of log-rolling between the Cabinet and some members of Congress. Said...
...which composes the finale. Like musketry came the applause. Stravinsky seated himself at the piano, played for the first time in Manhattan his Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. "It is," he had explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work...