Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive, "would encourage certain vicious minorities whose motives and conduct are inimical to, and destructive of, the principles upon which this republic was founded. These small groups of persons, among whom the very idea of God is repugnant, active in the opposition to the enactment of this law, and quick in the espousal of its repeal, would construe repeal triumphantly...
...Wisconsin cemetery, dressed it, propped it between them on the seat of their buggy. On the way back to Chicago they stopped at a tavern for drinks. While they were inside two Rush (University of Chicago) medical students drove up on their way to snatch another Wisconsin corpse. Quick-witted, they transferred the Northwestern cadaver to their buggy. One drove away to Chicago, the other got into the Northwestern buggy, pretended he was the corpse. In due course the drinkers left the tavern, continued their journey toward Chicago. Soon one remarked that the corpse seemed to be getting warmer. Thereupon...
...Hollywood, Heloise made $50 a week. In addition she was soon drawing regular fees modeling for Murray Korman, a theatrical and commercial photographer who admired her "fine character, brown eyes, and 34 in. bust." Only hitch in her quick rise was that Father Martin suddenly determined that she should finish her college course. When Heloise refused, he enlisted the aid of her friends Korman and Vallee (Yale '27) and with them engaged Heloise in a long-drawn argument. "Look at Katharine Hepburn," said Photographer Korman, "there was a girl with no looks but a college education and hasn...
Furthermore, a quick glance at the charts showed that the great bull bond market of the 1920s turned its crest early in 1928 when the real "boom" still had a year and a half to run. But even if bond buyers overlooked that last week, they could not, and did not, overlook two ominous signals from Washington. One was President Roosevelt's observation in his fireside talk that "the dangers of 1929 are again becoming possible, not this week or month but within a year or two." The other signal was that the last official caller at the White...
...peculiar appeal to people with an itch for quick money has the stock of Atlas Tack Corp., a little Fairhaven, Mass, concern whose volatile shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Four years ago, by high-powered manipulation which attracted the attention of New York's Attorney General and later drew Federal mail fraud indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share...