Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Cambridge railroad crossing, the extension of the subway will meet the extension of the Lechmere rapid transit over the roadbed of the abandoned Boston and Maine Railroad...
Getting off to a rapid start, Harvard's squash team is taking shape for its first matches early in December. With six lettermen back, the respective merits of the ranking players are fairly well known, although the final choices will not be made until just before the first match...
...leave Etta was prepared to give him all, but at the last minute her finer feelings overcame her. When they met again, it was too late, she was about to have a baby by a middle-aged barrister, whom Etta had tricked into fatherhood. Her post-War progress was rapid; she became a smart businesswoman, made a pile, finally completed the furnishing of her house by purchasing a young gigolo husband...
...hailed on the other as a story-teller who does not set himself up to be anything fancier, Author Burnett never goes behind the facts of what he has to tell, but his facts are telling. The Goodhues of Sinking Creek is only a long short story, but its rapid narrative covers as much ground as many a full-length novel...
...drama, it is easy to say that the "St. Louis Kid" is good Cagney; and good Cagney, as an unfortunately large number of people know, may be depended upon to include turmoil among the gendarmerie, wisecracks in a welter, fisticuffs in the boudoir, and a pace so rapid as hopelessly to outstrip the plot. Shamefacedly, we admit to a general liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting an able impersonation of James Cagney...