Word: brisking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...swank Mayfair shops, "National Topcoat Week" followed "National Fur Week" and autumn buying continued brisk. Enough timid shoppers stay at home to have doubled the business of London mail-order firms since break of World War II, but a daily tide of some 5,000 shoppers and window-gazers flowed down Oxford Street last week. Most ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line...
...precise, white-goateed Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 70, of Manhattan. Dr. Knubel admitted he could swallow the articles of agreement only by "gulping." The United Lutherans, who think some parts of the Scripture more important than others, had to swallow hard too. But under Dr. Knubel's brisk leadership and spurred by their desire for unity, gulp them the United Lutherans...
...Legislature, never noted for its dignity, outdid itself one night last week. A hillbilly band twanged while some lawmakers applauded, some moaned. A fireworks bomb exploded. Members gave dozing colleagues the hotfoot. Dice and cards rattled in anterooms, and bars in the vicinity of the State House did a brisk trade...
National Defense Minister Colonel J. (for James) L. (for Lay ton) Ralston reported to the House of Commons in Ottawa on the senior Dominion's progress. Earnest in appearance, soft of voice, brisk of manner, like a hornet for energy (he has worked between 16 and 20 hours a day for the last month), J. L. Ralston is widely considered the ablest man in Canada's wartime Government and the one most likely to succeed Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. His report glowed...
...Miniver takes even the war in her light, brisk stride. She begins to write about "back to normal." "Back to normal. No, thought Mrs. Miniver, standing by the window and looking out into the square, they weren't quite back to normal, and never would be; none of them...