Word: brisking
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...Brisk citizens of Middleboro, Mass., paused startled last week before a neatly lettered sign...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY- Ina Claire in a brisk and polished nothing about stolen pearls in an English country house...
Wherever instruments beat rhythms and humans whirl or sway in the dance, brisk tunes appear, engender lively songs, finally graft upon the tongue of man strange but glib phrases. Recent additions...
Picture a brisk, compact man of 55, with German blood in his veins and a wide experience of U. S. life, once a practicing attorney in his native Nebraska before he became a teacher of law. His personality matters little. His mind astonishes. The analytical and retentive powers are developed to a point that permits him to lecture, with staggering speed and intricacy and unfailing accuracy of citation, unaided by a single note. Second only to his accuracy is his energy. To hear Dean Pound tally up the work he has despatched in a day sounds like an ordinary...
...amain with roaring cylinders, but could not rise from the clinging snowfield. Overhead there was perfect flying weather, bright and clear. Eielson ripped the throttle wide open. The Alaskan roared forward, kicking up a small blizzard, and at last crept clear and aloft?only, when she landed after a brisk spin, to crash into a buried wire fence at the end of the field, smashing her propeller, landing gear and fuselage. No Pole flight for her for many weeks...