Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quick was Oil Administrator Ickes to point out that this decision invalidated only one small section of the Recovery Act, authorizing the President to forbid shipments of "hot oil" in interstate commerce. It did not invalidate NRA codes, or even the Petroleum Code. Secretary Ickes prepared at once to shift his efforts to control production by using the oil code as his tool. He added however: "I imagine the code's constitutionality will be tested next...
...poet Mr. Lehmann resembles the 17th century metaphysical; any how, he is under their influence, so potent also in the case of Mr. T. S. Eliot or Mr. Archibald MacLeish. Mr. Lehmann does not 'surprise' the reader by quick transitions from the grave to the trivial; he builds a poem often, in the manner of (say) Carew, on a single metaphor, of which the following is the best example...
Doubtfully the Bolshevik guards fingered it. Grudgingly they wired Moscow, and in Russia 36 hours is quick time in which to get a telegraphic response. While the Rumanian personage fumed, his Communist guards made him thoroughly uncomfortable by giving him some of their own black bread and cabbage soup. Then like a bolt from the blue came Moscow's answer, an airplane luxuriously equipped. Into it popped Minister Cuintu and zoomed off to his post over rough country innocent of railways...
...News Letter," official publication of the National Labor Committee of England, Prime Minister MacDonald, apropos of the present situation of upheaval and suspense regarding disarmament, spoke with a tone that sounded thunderously and majestically around the globe. It was the proclamation of wisdom and greatness from the quick, clear brain of a mighty...
...Author. No one is more aware than Maxwell Anderson of the pitfalls of historical drama. Quibblers are quick to pick up anachronisms, inaccuracies. Realists find the playwright's exercise of hindsight irritating. Mr. Anderson's feeling about historical plays is that the form is only useful when it is related to a problem of the present...