Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cripps family was long on M.P.s (Stafford is the ninth of his line to sit in the House of Commons) and lawyers (both his father and grandfather were at the bar). But young Stafford's quick mind first turned to science. He loved to take the family car to pieces and put it together again. After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London...
...week, is guaranteed by her divorce settlement with the Reporter's Publisher W. R. ("Billy") Wilkerson. Natty, collie-eyed Billy has had plenty of experience with divorce settlements (his present wife is No. 5), but he never made a better one. Edie Gwynn's scatterbrained manner, quick bursts of nervous laughter and lavishly indiscriminate endearments ("lambie pie, beautiful cookie") hide a razor-sharp nose for news. She has established herself as the mother confessor for Cinemaland, but it is other people's sins the penitents usually confess. Edith's column is the Reporter's biggest...
...Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...
...quick look through Signature tells what has happened since its predecessor, literary, neurotic Radditudes, came out last Spring. Not only has the unappetizing name been thrown out, but the aimless wandering from plan to plan and idea to idea has also gone. The editors now seem to know where they are going. The addition of a photo montage, Harvard editors, and a monthly forum on topics of interest to students all show that Signature's is attempting to fill a need--a college magazine for both Harvard and Radcliffe...
Forty-four of the Princetons, accompanied by 20 trainers, coaches, managers, and well-wishers, left the New Jersey hamlet early this morning and will pull into Back Bay at 2:45 o'clock. A quick dash to Cambridge will get them onto Soldiers Field by the 4:30 o'clock deadline, before darkness blots out the last-minute warm-up in the unfamiliar surroundnigs...