Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Somers Brookings (board president of St. Louis' Washington University); Irwin Boyle Laughlin (Jones & Laughlin, steel; U. S. Ambassador to Spain); John Campbell Merriam (president of Washington's Carnegie Institution), Frederic Adrian Delano and Dwight Whitney Morrow, Congress had first to pass a joint resolution approving him. With quick and courteous unanimity, the Senate approved such a resolution. Next day Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Robert Marion La Follette rushed upon the Senate floor demanding withdrawal of the Senate's approval of Mr. Stone. The La Follette objection: Mr. Stone is a public utility tycoon...
Folklore experts were quick to identify Mrs. Drew's rhymes as a variation of the old ballad "A Jealous Lover" which begins...
...make a cherry pie, Billy boy, Billy boy? Can she make a cherry pie, charming Billy? She can make a cherry pie, quick's a cat can wink her eye, She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother...
...arguments centered around six questions demanded of B. C. by the Crimson team to be answered strictly according to the statement of the issue. Despite numerous accusations of being off the point of argument and of not answering these questions, the quick-witted defenders of the repeal replied entirely to the satisfaction of the judges. Wright's clever eight-minute rebuttal seemed to clinch the argument, which up to that point had been wrangled indefinitely...
...cannot, however, be said to spoil this act, for the playwright has already done so?the husband's quick about-face to his wife when she has but mentioned her new philosophy of love is anything but the strong solution which you expect from a playwright who charges his characters and their destinies with conviction. Playwright Stewart plays a small part himself, merely by the process of speaking a little louder than usual. This is nicely informal, but, in combination with Hope Williams' amateurism, it makes little progress toward the high comedy of which he seems potentially capable...