Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. John Herbert Quick was born to his destiny "near Steamboat Rock, Grundy County, Iowa." After living most of his life in Iowa he is now, at 63, a large-landed resident of West Virginia. His interest and energies?as schoolmaster, lawyer, editor, author?have been in- tense and abundant, centering chiefly on history, politics and the lot of the farmer. His public service has ranged from counsel for the Citizens Committee of Sioux City, when he "prosecuted boodlers" in 1894, to membership on the Federal Farm Loan Board (1916) and head of the Far East Red Cross Commission...
Cogan's new song will be formaly introduced when he and R. P. Bullard '24. 1924 Class Chorister, sing at the Freshman Smoker at the Union Monday night. The song is said to have a short, quick time, which, when sung by the cheering body will strike terror into the hearts of the opponents...
...poet who finds his country pleasant, the world not wholly bad. Delicately, temperately, he writes of "Springtime along the Pennsylvania Railroad," "Tenement Children," "Keats," "Friendship," "The Lackawanna Ferry." A flowery hedge, a regiment of roses, the filagrees of a frozen brook?these lift his heart; and his eye is quick to value those exquisite banalities of everyday life that the gross cannot see, and the great have not time to write about. When he sings of the "Pony Express," "The First Steamboat on the Mississippi," "The Coming of the Railroad," he strains his note; these themes call for a larger...
...might bask in his calm effulgence? He was a little radical in some things and boldly said that if we had no Greek or Latin, then we should read the ancients with a trot, though he expressed it a little differently. But what he would have said about these quick-lunch spellings is not so certain...
Fierce protest was raised by the offspring of Boryna, quick to object to the bestowal of property which they regarded as rightly theirs on a girl already the object of envy and the target of scandal. The protest of Antek, son of Boryna, was intensified by the fact that he, too, loved the girl who was now robbing him not only of her body, but of his own substance...