Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quick Peek. After the procession passed, everyone surged toward the Palace. While the crowd roared good-natured advice, five elderly gentlemen hastened to drape the royal balcony with a huge bolt of gold-trimmed cloth. The royal foursome stepped out, waving and smiling while the crowd sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" Five minutes later the King shepherded his family back in. Someone spied Queen Mary in a courtyard below. "We want Queen Mary!" the crowd shouted, but the Queen Mother ignored them.* A minute later the crowd's attention was directed elsewhere. In an upper...
Furthermore, do not open it intending only a quick glance and a passing smile, because you will find yourself reading the entire magazine, except possibly for some rhymed, five-line fillers masquerading as limericks. Take "Speak For St. Joan," for instance. This is a good-natured burlesque of what might happen if two local histrionic organizations were to whip up a joint production. The points of the satire are consistently clear and the lyrics consistently funny, while the madcap climax combines a Cole Porter motif and a Charles Addams taste for the hideously ridiculous into some-thing of a tour...
Mayor Martin Kennelly of Chicago, who makes a point of double-quick refuse collecting, got a complaint from a citizen whose wife had accidentally thrown $30 in the garbage: the collectors had whisked the stuff away before the couple could rescue the money. Kennelly quieted the man down-and set a perilous precedent -by forking over $30 out of his own pocket...
This summer he will play a concert in the Hollywood Bowl for the first time. He is also thinking about a musical salute to the African Negro republic, Liberia. He adds, lazily: "I'm thinking about it. I'll decide pretty quick if I want to keep on thinking about...
Perhaps not since the time of the Renaissance Popes has a group of artists found a patron so quick with a wallet, so slow with unsolicited directions and advice. Rank usually asks his producers only two questions: 1) What do you want to do? 2) How much will it cost? If he likes the answer to the first, he generally does not quibble with the answer to the second (though in recent months he has been conducting a drive to cut costs without, he says, cutting quality...