Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court. The Navy got its full day in open court after one of its most noted fighting men did some quick footwork in the dark. Captain John Crommelin (who is eligible to become a rear admiral in December) had charged that the Navy was "being nibbled to death in the Pentagon" by "landlocked" strategists. His unruly blast had created only a short stir (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, more than ever determined to get a formal investigation of his charges, John Crommelin took more desperate action...
...sides to a conciliation meeting, and Lewis replied in his usual pithy manner, "will attend." The owners also agreed, and the first session of talks was held on Friday, with no results announced. The three principals will be back at it again tomorrow, with Ching determined to effect a quick settlement...
...Quick-paced work allowed WBZ to complete its sprawling radio and television center in a little over a year. The entire WBZ family packed up and moved out of the Bradford and into the new center one weekend in June...
...tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles off to Housemaid Kate. "I seen the hair of 'is 'ead," she screams; "the Captain...
...stockbroker in getting him under the lock & key of matrimony. Cobwebs over Eire. Two such masterly characters deserve a masterly stage-set, and Author Green supplies it. Hollywood could make of Loving a movie almost as stunning as the novel, simply by faithfully following Green's sharp, quick series of glittering scenic plays and his natural, jumping dialogue. And a good director could even capture the lush moments when Green suddenly forgets the human comedy and begins to dream poetic fairy tales-as in his pen-picture of peacock-keeper Paddy O'Conor, surprised napping in the saddle...