Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After another quick change, this time to their store clothes, Conductor Koussevitzky and his men gave Manhattanites their first taste of Serge Prokofieff's children's suite, Peter and the Wolf, made them whoop and giggle to hear Peter's duck (the oboe) quack mournfully inside the hungry wolf's stomach (three French horns). With the evening topped off with waltzes by Johann Strauss, Sibelius and Ravel, concertgoers felt that Henry Lee Higginson's band had kicked up its heels about as much as any self-respecting 58-year-old symphony had a right...
...some 800 anecdotes lifted from correspondence, newspapers, biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...
...built up a creditable reputation on his crushing punches, patted Bettina with no more force than a pussy cat's paw. In the eighth round, just as the Beaconites were beginning to yawn, the magic worked. Bettina's left hooks floored Grippo's victim twice in quick succession and in the middle of the next round the Tiger, staring stupidly, staggered to a neutral corner...
...Thunder is the result of a pressure wave caused by the sudden expansion of air created by a quick lightning discharge. All flashes do not release energy with the same speed. ... In some cases the electrical current is built up and released slowly; that is, in one or two tenths of a second as compared to millionths of a second in other discharges. This so-called slow lightning produces no thunder...
...drought of liquid refreshment was averted at the Dartmouth Carnival by official leniency and a quick wire to the state capital, when the disappearance of the liquor license of the Dartmouth Outing Club threatened disaster Friday night...