Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble is we do not really know what we are voting for. All the politicians talk about is what is wrong with the other parties and with the Allies. No one tells us how his party can end unemployment, how he can get us houses." The Germans were quick to pick up electioneering tricks. Outside one polling place well-scrubbed German moppets happily clutched colored balloons proclaiming, "Vote for the Socialist Party." Explained one little girl: "Some kind gentleman came up and gave them...
...matter how fast it grows, quick-stepping, penny-wise Otto Schnering, 57, will keep pace with it. As a boy, he spent his summers on his father's fatrm near Detroit, and hoped to become a farmer too. But after graduation from the University of Chicago, he wanted to get married, so he got a job in a bank...
...that an impressive-and depressing-fact about the past 25 years was the decline in reader "attention." Readers refused to read anything except "the shortened paragraph, the carefully measured column, the 'punchy' sentence." The whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...
...only a kitten when he first padded into the Villager's office in 1935. In three months, lithe, quick-moving Scoopy rid the office of rats. Such energy won him a home, a byline and the editorial assistance of Clara Bell Woolworth and later Emeline Paige, two Village ladies with a passion for anonymity. Scoopy plumped for neighborliness and civic betterment, supported the Greenwich Village Humane League, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the United Nations Children's Fund. His fan mail was the Villager's biggest...
...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...