Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badman, several Indians, and Marilyn. She gives him by far the toughest scrap. Mitchum also plays a scene calculated to set up a wolf-call cacophony from one end of the nation to the other: he sternly tells a drenched Marilyn to get undressed, and then gives her a brisk rubdown while, the Monroe epidermis is covered only by a blanket...
...John Copley, Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West-were influenced chiefly by British masters. But with the winning of independence, Americans found new confidence in home talent. Untrained artists began proudly advertising themselves as "self-taught," and for the next century native portraitists, landscapists and genre painters did a brisk business. They were simple, humble men, who seldom signed their work. Many hit the road each spring, offering their services at farmhouses from Maine to Georgia...
...tension is brilliantly built by all hands. The script maintains the mood with a cold, mechanical finesse: each new scene thrusts out the one before with a brisk push-pull, click-click. Yet curiously, only one actor really seems to get his blood up in the contest. Holden, Douglas and Calhern are fine in their characterizations of U.S. businessmen. But as the "night-school C.P.A." who tries to charm, scheme, jostle and bluff his way to power, Fredric March is magnificent...
...William S. Richardson, 60, took over the presidency of the B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, the country's fourth largest rubber company. A brisk, incisive executive who never seems to slow down, Richardson emigrated from England to the U.S. when he was twelve. He joined the Goodrich organization in 1926, moved up to become general sales manager and then president of the B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. in Cleveland. As president, he succeeds John L. Collyer, a pioneer in synthetic rubber and spokesman for the industry on the War Production Board. Collyer will remain as chairman...
Despite this, he kept up a brisk intellectual life, and turned out an impressive body of letters and articles ranging from theology to musical criticism. He also worked on a new translation of the Old Testament into German. He received visitors, entertained dinner guests, and displayed a quiet courage. At 43 he died, still a confident...