Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Coolidge "chose," he startled his secretary and his doorman. He startled Main Street, Rapid City, and Wall Street, Manhattan. It is not unthinkable that he even startled himself, but certainly he startled no one more than his political impresario, William Morgan Butler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, who, just when the laconic lightning struck, was on a jotting jaunt in the Northwest, a tour of inspection to see what properties would be necessary for the Prosperities of 1928, starring Calvin Coolidge...
...University of North Carolina. Travels in Europe, delvings into European information mines produced the news which made possible the scornful iconography of his previous much-heralded work on Benjamin Franklin. From the same sources, he has gathered now for the life of a less intimate hero, the same casual, rapid style, a possibly less accurate body of research, but an even more engaging history...
...fact that there are more than six times as many in these regions as there are in the United States. But we are inclined to overlook the present insignificance of their buying power, their extreme poverty, and the political, social, and economic difficulties that stand in the way of rapid progress...
...Tell It To Sweeney", the Conklin-Bancroft opus at the Metropolitan this week, depicts the trials and tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience...
...life, so the next day they head for a Justice of the Peace in a neighboring town in his little roadster. Superintendent Sweeney hears of it, and Cannon-Ball Casey is told to break all records in getting to Oxford ahead of the eloping pair. In rapid succession the audience is offered a limited "running wild". . . . . Old "Isobel" proving her worth . . . . a smash up in which a load of hay plays a major part . . . . a record lowered . . . a marriage almost thwarted. Almost, mind you. Leave the climax to Casey and Luke. They do everything but "Tell It To Sweeney...