Word: brisking
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Outside, on the sunbathed square and under the balconies of Bay Street, Bahaman blacks shuffled through their work or rested in the warm sun. The bars at the Prince George and the Rozelda waited for recess and brisk trade. Beyond the town and the deep blue water of the Gulf Stream there was a world at war, but in Nassau this week interest was focused on the legal battle for Freddy's life...
...when they cut down 9,000 acres of trees they could no longer afford to spray, and went so terribly in the red that the average debt was $750 per acre. But by 1941 prices went up; the demand for Wenatchee's luxury apples was brisk. That fall, when Shipper Reuben Benz wangled a freight reduction, the growers were riding so high that they gave him 3,100 silver dollars, trundled into a banquet room in a wheelbarrow...
...that show and its bull's-eye title back in 1935, but has taken its own aim from there on. The MGMarksmen ring no resounding bell, but they do bag 1) an average musical wartime romance (Private Gene Kelly v. Colonel's-Daughter Kathryn Grayson), 2) a brisk, hefty variety show featuring a clutch of M.G.M. stars and three bands (Kay Kyser, Bob Crosby, Benny Carter), 3) Pianist José Iturbi in his screen debut...
...Germans set the stage with care. For a week they plugged the new "Republican Fascism." Then, when Joe Goebbels' men judged the temper right, they played a muffled recording of the Duce's voice, followed by the crashing notes of Giovinezza and brisk translations in all important languages. Said Mussolini in his supervised 15-minute comeback...
...This brisk bit of skulduggery permits antisocial Painter Farll to assume his valet's name and begin a new life as a starving artist. The arrangement works well until 1) the valet's wife (Una O'Connor) and family turn up and denounce the fraud; 2) an art dealer is accused of selling forged Farlls...