Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developed that the Charles is abnormally muddy at this season, so that a layer of silt became deposited upon their respective costumes. Anxious to remedy the faux pas the young man was quick to suggest they retire to his room, where by means of a forceful stream of water from the shower fixture overhead they removed the silt from their clothes-simultaneously...
...post Jockey Hanford took a quick look at Brevity pawing the ground nervously while his blinkers were being adjusted. At the break the 14 horses jammed, one jockey was unseated. The crowd gasped as the favorite was nearly knocked to his knees. Another horse caromed into Bold Venture. Trailing the field, Hanford steadied him, worked up to eighth place at the quarter-mile, maneuvered Bold Venture into the lead at the half-mile. At the mile Brevity drew up alongside. The horses' necks bobbed and stretched in uni son down the stretch. But Hanford man aged to keep Bold...
...Hollywood she gained quick distinction for a quality unique in actresses under 45 - she would play anything. She was the only good-looking girl whom Paramount found willing to stick her face through a doorway in I'm No Angel and let Mae West squirt water into it. Her performance in 'Murder at the Vanities was so nastily expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile...
...will be fortunate indeed for those who attend Harvard in the next few years if Professor Kittredge can be induced from time to time to talk. Most of his students have feared his harp tongue and quick impatience. But they have respected his great learnings and gloried in his eccentricities and mannerisms. More salt of the Kittredge kind in colleg lecture halls would be a boon to American education. --New York Herald-Tribune...
...Puerto Rico. U. S. management of Puerto Rico, like U. S. management of other colonies, has been neither very good nor very bad. Puerto Rico has given the Washington government a few mild aches & pains but nothing officially serious enough to indicate that President Roosevelt was even considering a quick amputation from U. S. sovereignty of this Caribbean territory...