Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha, who was reading the Speech from the Throne, when the Premier dropped dead (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week King Farouk commanded Minister of War Saleh Younes Pasha to attend his royal person during ceremonies inaugurating a new water system at Fayyúm. With a brisk step the Minister entered the King's train at Cairo. Just as it was about to pull out he collapsed. Jabbering with excitement, Egyptians carried Saleh Younes Pasha out of the royal train to a station sitting room, where he rapidly grew weaker and died...
Back to London after his fiasco at Dakar and his coup in Gabon went General Charles de Gaulle last week. Tired but still brisk, he went straight to No. 10 Downing Street to report to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Later he broadcast an appeal to Frenchmen in France to hold out against the Vichy Government. "Free France," said its leader, "now has 35,000 trained troops under arms, 20 warships in service, 1,000 aviators and 60 merchant ships at sea." In a phrase reminiscent of Dakar (where De Gaulle forces withdrew rather than fight other Frenchmen) General de Gaulle...
...field has been covered all week, and word comes from Tom Stephenson, Southern Sage of the H.A.A. that ticket sales in Providence have been brisk, balancing up for the rather weak demand in Boston and vicinity. About 20,000 people are expected to attend...
...swank Mayfair shops, "National Topcoat Week" followed "National Fur Week" and autumn buying continued brisk. Enough timid shoppers stay at home to have doubled the business of London mail-order firms since break of World War II, but a daily tide of some 5,000 shoppers and window-gazers flowed down Oxford Street last week. Most ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line...
...precise, white-goateed Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 70, of Manhattan. Dr. Knubel admitted he could swallow the articles of agreement only by "gulping." The United Lutherans, who think some parts of the Scripture more important than others, had to swallow hard too. But under Dr. Knubel's brisk leadership and spurred by their desire for unity, gulp them the United Lutherans...