Word: brisking
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...Carolina tried to wedge in ticketless, were sent packing. "Get back there!" barked a policeman as he collared another man, tall, dour-faced, pince-nezed, who was trying to push by. "I'm the Secretary of the Treasury," said Henry Morgenthau, mildly. Inside, each ticketholder was given a brisk frisk for weapons before he could proceed to the galleries, where another hundred Secret Service men were scattered...
...Pursglove, W. Va., on Sunday, the men from Scott's coal hollow held a meeting. Stiff in their Sunday clothes, they flocked to Dallas Hall, paused for a brief beer, stood bareheaded in the bare room to hear their leaders. Outside a brisk wind whipped powdery snow around the houses that cling drunkenly to the hillsides...
...Clark of Harvard crew fame decided last week to recapture a bit of his youth so he donned his rowing clothes and pushed out upon the stormy Charles. In midstream the shell capsized and John finished his row with a brisk swim...
Three months to the day after he had taken office, New York's brisk, boyish Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey reported to his 13,000,000 constituents. He sounded like the very epitome of the model Governor, who does everything he should exactly when he should, not a step too far, not a second too fast...
...Cinch, Private Finch!" is unique in several aspects. Technically, its cartoons and brisk, colloquial style of description on the facing pages are refreshingly novel. Also, unlike Hargrove, it takes a typical draftee on the highlights of his basic career rather than the exceptional private during everyday...