Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale men point with pride to Statesman Stimson, and Harvard men to Secretary Adams, Secretary Good is satisfying to that large group of citizens whose background includes the state universities. Indeed the University of Michigan, where "Jim" Good studied law after being graduated from little Coe College ('92), was quick and glad to claim him, in a sort of for-God-for-country-and-for-Michigan alumni article last spring, along with Secretaries Lamont and Hyde (full-fledged Michiganders). as part of the new Michigan delegation in the Cabinet? a delegation far more satisfying to Michigan than its last...
...fleet, hoarsely warning them against the imperialism of Great Britain. His name was William B. Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well-heeled, he was a generous entertainer. Quick of temper, he once threatened to "knock the hell" out of a Washington correspondent (Ray Tucker) who dared dispute his word. Quickly he was recognized as the most potent Big-Navy lobbyist in Washington. Whom or what he represented remained a mystery...
...Events quick-stepping after Red Generalissimo Blücher 's prelude to battle were...
Rages. Injuries to the base of the brain cause quick rages, found Oxford's J. F. Fulton and F. D. Ingraham...
Getting Even is a play by Nathaniel Wilson who explained before its premiere that he was making an attempt to adapt to the stage the staccato methods and quick scene changes of cinema. How hopelessly he failed could be gathered from the rude hysteria of his first audience or the comment of Critic Percy Hammond (New York Herald Tribune) who predicted that the cast would be "celebrated in the future for having appeared in the world's worst play...