Word: quicklys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student parades with the seat of his pants, the fiery Councillor from Ward Six healed that historic breach when he made the "Lampoon" chief publicity agent for his new campaign. Prominent in his new election folder is the cartoon of himself, subbing for St. George astride his warehouse, dealing quick death to Radicalism, Corruption and Vice...
...Washington burst out quick pruts of irritation from Senators Minton, Thomas, Vandenberg, Burke, Nye and Adams, as well as several Congressmen. Steve Early, White House secretary, came out of the President's study next day and remarked to reporters with studied severity: "It would have been kind and polite of the speaker to have consulted the victim before he spoke." This satisfied nobody, but it served to remind a U. S. absorbed by the War that a Presidential election was only 377 days away, and that the third term was an issue...
...House of Representatives this week came at last the Pittman Neutrality Bill. With it came hordes of newsmen, shoals of tourists, and Franklin Roosevelt's hopes of quick enactment and adjournment. House leaders maneuvered the Neutrality Bill to the floor under technical safeguards that guaranteed swift action. Only a major upset now could plant new barriers in the path of U. S. aid to the Allies - and no upset was expected...
What made Teutons fear and Gauls love Sir Eric Phipps was his wit, as dark and quick as sparkling Burgundy. One night while he was in Berlin, Field Marshal Hermann Göring arrived at an Embassy party late and breathless. Bowing deeply, Göring roared: "I have just come from the hunt." Sir Eric examined Göring from head to foot, and drawled: "Animals, I presume...
...Dick was quick to heap praise on the Tigers, both collectively and individually. He paid especial tribute to Captain Bob Tierney, Peters, and Jackson. Asked if the absence of Herring weakened the Orange and Black line and allowed the Crimson attack to function for the first time since Chicago, the Harvard mentor replied that most of Spreyer's and Helden's thrusts were directed at the guards, not the tackles