Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild, soft-spoken man with a wisp of a smile poking out from beneath his usually serious manner, Mr. McNiff manifests his seldom-called-on Gaelic wrath when he sees the handiwork of the margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses are the work of the determined minority, for "most of the boys are good lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever...
...appeared, budding actress Anna Prince replied, "I am a senior at Radcliffe. I used to keep two white mice in my room. I am an English Major. I have an Indian motorcycle." She then departed through the "stage door," a conveniently-placed window overlooking Mr. Auburn Street, for a quick between-the-acts smoke...
...head and walked on. Suddenly a shadow came abreast of him. It was the steam roller, slow, driverless. Tomaso saw that there were dark stains on the white rollers. They were bloodstains. Fifty yards behind, three-year-old Rose Delauney, playing with her doll on the sidewalk, cried: "Come quick, papa. Come quick. Monsieur bleeds...
...made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help...
...onetime British Columbia cattlehand who rode his first race in 1927, he served apprenticeship on dusty Western tracks and went to Mexico and Cuba to ride the "gyp" circuit in the winter. Unlike most get-rich-quick jockeys, he saved his money after graduating to bigger tracks, lived for a while in a trailer...