Word: brisking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whether Folies Bergere, derived from a minor Hungarian play called The Red Cat (TIME, Oct. 1), justified such elaborate preparations, they are likely to find it an agreeable and handsomely arranged example of its type. Between the big "production numbers" at the start and finish, it sandwiches in a brisk little backstage-&-bedroom farce based on the resemblance of a song-&-dance man in the "Folies Bergere" to a celebrated financier...
...West Hall. With my breakfast I read the morning papers if I am alone, otherwise I look them over, noting what I must read later on, then I run down and get into my car and drive myself out to where the horses are waiting. An hour's brisk ride along the Potomac, a bath on my return. If I am lucky, I will be at my desk between 10:30 and 11 o'clock...
...Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians...
...suite in Manhattan's sedate Hotel Plaza bustled and hummed last week with brisk activity. After more than a year of thoroughgoing preparation. Promoter Adolph Oettinger Goodwin was ready to launch his Goodwin Plan by which church people will promote the sale of certain manufactured products and thereby earn 2% commissions (TIME. Dec. 4. 1933). Despite the criticism leveled at it last year by church papers, the Plan has whetted the pious appetites of churchgoers who plan to give the proceeds to Ladies' Aid Societies, home mission boards, Christian Endeavor, et al. Furthermore, devout buyers are assured that...
...when the brisk, tough-thewed, iron-haired ex-banker began to talk business, it was clear that he had by no means lost the spirit which once prompted him to defy the Federal Reserve Board. With a gardenia in his lapel, faultlessly dressed in a dark grey suit, starched collar and pepper-&-salt cravat, he displayed the same earnest optimism which helped make his bank for a few years the biggest in the U. S. Cried...