Word: quick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ick.es, long a fanatic on turning off unnecessary electric lights in the Interior Department, few days ago spied on scores of clerks skulking into the Department cafeteria for a quick bracer (coffee or tea), next day ordered the cafeteria closed after lunch...
Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...
...baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes, out looking for an honest man, would not shine his lamp in either Alexander's or Stalin's visage very long...
...chief liaison officer; also Equerry Piers Legh, Private Secretary Sir Alexander Hardinge, a Scotland Yardsman carrying the royal gas mask and red dispatch case. Lord Gort spent the next few days arduously escorting his sovereign house guest hither & yon through the lines for His Majesty's quick edification and for the pepping-up, which was real and welcome, of His Majesty's armed forces. It was planned that every Tommy should get at least a glimpse...
...Jack be nimble, Jack be quick; Jack jump over this here stick!" shouted the drunken father, who had sold the family Furniture to buy liquor. While mother and sister wept to see such sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The scene shifted-years had passed. The son, arriving home drunk from a football game, forced his aging father to jump over a stick. "Have mercy on my grey hairs," begged the old man. "You didn't have any mercy on my black ones," said the boy. "Jump again." Father...