Word: brisk
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...distance four individuals, so lean and lank that I thought they must have some connection with Memorial Hall; and, in fact, they proved to be the Gargoyles from the tower. Following them came the two Pumps, who extended to me their handles, and shook hands in a painfully brisk manner...
...Academy of Music the proscenium boxes have been offered to professors in previous years, but they have not availed themselves of their privileges, and this year the boxes have been for sale. There has been a brisk competition for them by Greek letter societies. The Psi Upsilon, Alpha Delta Phi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternities took boxes...
THREE came a confidential knock at the door the other afternoon, followed, with scarce a pause for an answer, by the entrance of a little old man. Closing the door behind him with brisk gentleness, he glided forward, and with the smile and manner of an old family friend, said, "Had your head examined? guess I didn't see you t' other day; have n't had your head examined, have you?" Politely motioning toward a friend who happened to be in the room, I pretended to be absorbed in my book. Renardy was in an easy-chair...
...good walk, but it should be taken oftener, and men who do not take other exercise should accustom themselves to walking for an hour or two every day at the rate of four or five miles an hour. There is nothing so invigorating as a good, brisk walk with the shoulders thrown back and the chest expanded, and, besides, the country about Cambridge is well worth exploring on Saturdays and on leisure afternoons...
YALE has beaten Columbia at foot-ball, and is happy. That dear little Record is as brisk as ever, and prints its funny little time-honored article on college "sponges," its good little article on "college reform," its examination schedules and society reports, and its terse little expository editorials with plenty of "we's" sprinkled in, and is altogether such a cheerful, busy, bustling, self-contented little sheet as is truly refreshing to behold. This is its best joke...