Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...velvet ribbon about here wrinkled neck, and then, to call attention to here irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first-class Irish setter...
...Quick and emphatic in his denial that there was basis for such a rumour, Dimas Malone, Chairman of the Press, termed it the "silliest thing he had ever heard...
Surveying "The Occupational Outlook for Youth," Speaker Pitkin observed: "You must become as versatile and quick-witted as possible." Irrepressible as usual was rich old Edward Filene, the Boston merchant whose hobby for 20 years has been talking liberalism. Stormed he: "Those who made money in the last generation might drink champagne when children all over America were crying for milk which they couldn't get. That game is about over now. ... I hail the arrival of a day when power has passed into the hands of the people and we businessmen must obey...
...fairly clear that ever since Mr. Ford pulled his company out of Wall Street back around 1920, he has been proud of escaping the fangs of financiers, and quick to blame them for all labor and political troubles. The amazing growth of the Ford Motor Company in the decade of the twenties as an independent concern without financial backing from outside has set an enviable precedent for small and large businesses that might wish to emulate its course. Yet, every business manager is not a Ford, and therefore big banking seems as inevitable a factor in the industrial picture...
...fast start in this race was almost spoiled when the Eliot coxswain got his bearings mixed and swung onto the Kirkland eight; only Haines' yell and quick pull on the tiller ropes averted a nasty crash and the Elephants dropped back about a third of a length while this was going...