Word: brisking
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...brisk practice session marked one more day off the football calendar yesterday at Soldiers Field as Casey kept his men on the march. Fundamentals took up part of the afternoon's drill, the squads being put through a snappy brushing up on all the elementals, the aim being to keep the Harvard cogs clicking in the same way that they have been in the past three games...
...cast but the entire audience squirming with the desire to get hands on her throat. But no one who has ever possessed an Aunt Lottie will say she is an exaggeration. Able Actress Lowell, with able support, even makes plausible the few moments when she is pitiable. Brisk if undistinguished dialog helps the play; a farcical ending hurts it. It is a fine play for everyone's Aunt Lottie...
...Josiah voiced ringing confidence that the superior fiscal organization and longer experience of London in handling complex international transactions will keep the City's services and the pound in brisk worldwide demand. 3) "The greatest friend of New York," concluded Sir Josiah, "could not say at the present time that New York's financial dealings with foreign countries have been characterized by a steady, courageous purpose or by intimate and far-seeing knowledge." For the cashing of bills of exchange "on any large scale a very elaborate machine of financial knowledge and financial courage is required, and this...
...places in the U. S. suitable for soaring and gliding, Elmira, N. Y. is one of the best.* High hills on three sides of a valley assure the necessary upcurrents whenever a reasonably brisk breeze blows. Perversely, except for an occasional gusty storm, the wind failed to blow for nearly all of 14 days of the National Glider Association's second annual meet which ended last week. Nearly 30 gliding and soaring craft (20 of them the famed Franklin type) were assembled for the meet. For ten days the pilots tried with little success to make sustained flights. Then...
...bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most remarkable products of the Industrial Revolution...