Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering in the background gave the new divine's nose a quick wipe. Chubby little Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr., aged 7, burst into a treble hymn, Something Got a Hold of Me, launched into a brisk sermon on "Hell, or God's Penitentiary...
...Cornell Law School in 1915, young Sam was advised by a successful Jewish lawyer to change his name to Lee. "I told him to go to hell." Two years of $35-a-week civil practice turned Lawyer Liebowitz to defending criminals. A debater and dramatic star at Cornell, he quickly found his genius to be mastering juries. A natural showman, daring, quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory and an intuitive awareness of jury reactions, Lawyer Liebowitz' court successes came so unbelievably as to make him appear hypnotic...
...suffering from spinal meningitis occasionally develop a temperature of 111º F. But not even children, whose normal temperatures are higher than temperatures of normal adults, can live very long with 111º F. fever, or even with 109.8° F. To save the life of a heat victim quick measures are essential. Dan Long got them-ice packs to remove the body heat which his deranged system could not radiate; oxygen for his thickened blood; cold salty water to replace the sweat he had lost. In a few hours record-breaking Dan Long's temperature read a normal...
...bone loose in his head. Later in the day, having recovered completely, he began unaccountably asking the why of things, had his first intimate talk with his handsome, radical-minded son Max, who immediately egged his father on to put the Cabinet ministers in their place. Princess Charlotte, quick-witted and unconventional like her brother, also went to work on King John. As the result of this radical coaching the King soon had his ministers half crazy with alarm. When they tried to maneuver an election to hamstring the power of the church, the King sided with the bishops...
Reported the New Yorker three weeks ago: "A little group of animal lovers organized . . . under the title Mouse Beautiful are out to capture the flagging interest of former guppy-and ant-fanciers. . . . Their bait, as the quick ones among you will have guessed, is mice-white ones, the same sort as those now scampering madly all over the best London drawing rooms...