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Such questions, vital, cannot be answered without a preliminary brisk reading of the short treaty text, followed by a stimulating mental rubdown with the treaty reservations...
...Frances W. Capper made a hole-in-one at the Chestnut Hill Golf Club in Brookline, Mass. Then, just for practice, she took another shot from the same tee and, after a brisk walk of 150 yards, picked two balls out of the same...
...Doesn't he look well!" has become the stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly...
...dedication began 20,000 assembled Italian War Veterans spontaneously cheered their beloved little king-one of the few monarchs to visit front line trenches under fire during the War. With a brisk salute, His Majesty acknowledged the cheer, then sat, impassive and noncommittal, while the inaugural oration was pronounced by Minister of Public Works O. Giuriati. Orated he, in reckless, provocative, and typically Fascist style...
...morning a brisk northwest wind combined with the ebb tide to make very fast conditions. Paddling downstream for a mile and a half the first two eights changed shells, rowed on a few strokes and then returned to the boathouse...