Word: brisking
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...robust man with a brisk and busy, if unruffled manner, a native of Delaware, a lawyer by training. At 25 he gave up practice at the bar to enter the State Department. He has several times been Assistant Secretary of State, several times represented the U. S. in diplomatic conferences. But his service in the State Department has been disjointed. When he was only 31 (he is now 65) he accepted the chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University?the first chair of its kind in the country. He was made a judge of the Permanent Court...
Paulen, the Dutch middle-distance runner who is also entered with Watters in the 600 yards arrived last night on the steamer Olympic from the flat country, and will have little chance to whet his spikes before the race tonight. A brisk walk will probably be all the exercise he will get before the meet starts. As foreign stars in all lines of sport have taken several days to get acclimated before competing, it is doubtful whether Paulen will put on his best exhibition before his next meet...
...borrow shares of his gold and glory. By the Way is a London success of many months and employs two principal British entertainers, Jack Hulbert and Cecily Courtneidge. It is terribly, terribly English, and for the first half very good fun. The second act fails to sustain the brisk supply of sketch and song. There is the usual British reticence in the matter of glowing scenery and costumes encrusted with emeralds. The piece has personality rather than pretense. It has also a complete English chorus, which oddly enough is highly decorative...
...sense of strangeness and yet of familiarity. Directly opposite was the 'Coop,' lit up and glistening like a brand new backdrop. Next to it 'Harvard Trust' was sparkling in a sign of Kohinoors. 'This is Harvard Square,' I said to myself, remembering a zealously studied map. A surge of brisk, chill air cooled our faces. Light twinkled and beamed all around, as if in general welcome. People and autos and streetcars passed like noisy phantoms. So unreal and theatrical did it all seem that I wanted to pinch myself, but at that moment, with a word, my friend plunged into...
...Cohan wrote this play it was agreed to be one of the most interesting and effective technical experiments produced by a native playwright. Also it was funny. The latitude of the movies obscures somewhat the ingenious fitting of the pieces. The director and Douglas MacLean have retained the brisk and novel humor...