Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words Mr. Hoover is acquiring "what it takes" to get votes. On February 13 his performance was superb. He carried up from the floor terrific hay makers, in the use of which he has always been adept, and interspersed these with quick, deadly rabbit-punches-those novel ironic sallies which are extraordinarily effective politically because they provoke mirth. This style of debate Lincoln knew well; Hoover seems to be learning...
...Miss Spence five days a week, eight months of the year for more than eight years. She was a small rugged person with a quick step and a determined eye. I never saw her shocked but once-that was at the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. She did not call for smelling salts. She called the school together and announced neither she nor any institution she was connected with was neutral under the circumstances. WINTHROP B. PALMER (Mrs. Carleton Palmer) New York City
...glare ice. Sand is a useful article whose virtues seem to have been ignored in this crisis; the qualities of sand are admirable, not only on icy streets but on icy sidewalks; not all the sidewalks have been sanded, and thrills await the traveller on the more remote byways. Quick snow removal, and a liberal application of sand, would make progress afoot and awheel less picturesque, but more efficient...
STOOGING for Gracie Allen, one of Ted Hu numerous radio chores, is at best confining ness for the man whose tongue and quick eye been ten years behind the mike. When given scope, as it is during the football season and in clubs, the tongue wins bordes of admirers s liberally with enemies. For example, when Ted Minnesota's 35 first stringers might be bench was at Princeton, or some such. Or when he t forked retort off-duty at critics or anyone else brushes with the man who has been ten years be the mile...
...keener or curate eye has cau football game. His come at the rate of minute. Wherever a phone can be ta high places and throughout the nation has taken it, do glasses, and cast a glance at the doings. events, sports, specta all have been quick for his uninterrupted glossy announcer's technique...