Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason Mr. Cummings stayed in Washington so long was the good time lively, quick-tongued Mrs. Cummings had as a Cabinet wife, a time which culminated in her court presentation at Buckingham Palace in a bright red dress.* Washington will miss their parties. The main reason he wanted to get back to his private practice was to make some more money before he got too old.† Last summer, having passed 68, he swore that this year would be his last in harness but the final decision was not reached quite as planned...
...While quick-thinking Police Clerk Dwyer announced to Washington newshawks that his newly famed wife had placed the bet for an undisclosed friend to whom she had to turn over her winnings, the two women went into hiding to avoid salesmen and reporters...
...good tonic, I respectfully suggest that President Roosevelt go to see "quick-silvered," electric Tallulah Bankhead when he wants complete relaxation. Miss Bankhead has the faculty to make you forget everything, except what is transpiring on the stage...
...danger from CCC boys, who are discouraged from having guns not only to avoid accidents* but so that pacifists cannot accuse the corps of being militaristic. To every CCCster at work in hunting country is issued a marker-a bright headband or hat tassel-as protection from quick-triggered hunters...
...showing Harvard to her for there is always plenty to gloat over and to point out pride fully in the Yard. A stranger isn't so quick to notice that some of those glorious trees are now drunkenly askew, propped up like so many old ladies. Strangers are inclined to see only the starched bosom of Widener. And she misses the ugly excavations while dreaming over the calculated simplicity of Memorial Church. Then Vag introduces her to his Yardling friends, Goo-Goo the pigeon and Grumpy the squirrel. They accept her, so she "belongs." Vag is pleased at their approval...