Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Half way through the film came a spurt of flame, a cloud of acrid black smoke from the projection booth. The cinema operator's assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...
...Austria, eagle-beaked Monsignor Ignaze Seipel, onetime Prime Minister of Austria, leader of the Christian Socialist Party, crafty cleric, on his return from delivering a series of theological lectures at the University of the tiny independent Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. As the ex-Prime Minister alighted, the newshawks blurted quick questions. Was it true that he favored the return of the Habsburgs to reign in Austria? Did he want to form a separate most Catholic Kingdom of united Austria and Bavaria? Did he want to indemnify the Habsburgs for property confiscated by the Austrian Republic? In Luxemburg had he visited...
...Quick was the Times to explain that this testimonial was unbought. unsolicited. Senator Capper of Kansas and Novelist Arnold Bennett of England were two other testifiers whose good words the Times published lately. A dozen other celebrities scheduled to compliment the Times through its own pages include Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, President Henry Smith Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation...
Between the Times-Star and the Post, the city's other evening newspaper, there exists a state of healthy, oldtime journalistic competition. The Post, with a slightly larger circulation (200,300), is independent, quick to snatch up the torch of popular issues, taking its political cue from the national Scripps-Howard chain to which it belongs. The Times-Star (circulation: 160,500) claims the support of the Best Families, boasts a greater bulk of advertising in its thick pages. Each watches its rival narrowly, trying to scoop city news and beat the other's editions to the street...
...which acted on Yale's proposal, yesterday voted to permit Coach Mitchell to allow the players to handle any preliminary games in a similar way, leaving the games and the dates of the games so to be played up to the discretion of the coach. The Crimson mentor was quick to reply that he was in favor of the proposed system as an experiment, and that he thought that the plan should not be used only in the Yale series, but that Harvard's nine should have a thorough tryout under the plan before it meets the Blue. Mitchell...