Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Quick to put aside professional rivalries were the rest of Chicago's newspapers. They joined the Tribune in demanding vengeance for Martyr Lingle. The Daily News demanded the instant removal of Police Commissioner William J. Russell and Chief of Detectives John Stege. The Hearst Herald-Examiner matched the Tribune's $25,000 reward offer. The Evening Post offered $5,000. The Chicago Press Club ''stood ready" to post $10,000 more. By the end of the week there was $55,725 on the killer's head. The newspapers reprinted each other's editorials proclaiming...
...life, his escape, the new career he makes for himself, the shadow of his past life constantly threatening him but with which he deals effectively?right up to the happy ending there is never a second when suspense has been neglected or overemphasized, or when the telling loses its quick, easy rhythm or becomes incredible. Best shot: Powell pushing his hands into a mill-roller to tear the skin off his police-recorded fingertips...
...Quick-Change Statesman...
...occupant of the White House. When Thomas Jefferson was elected to succeed him, Adams was so enraged that he refused to be present at Jefferson's inauguration. (Only other such case: son John Quincy Adams, fifth U. S. President, would not stay to greet incoming President Andrew Jackson.) Quick-tempered, ambitious, vain, John Adams was never personally popular. Short and fat, he was nicknamed "His Rotundity" by Washington wits...
...sailors once before, in a silent picture (The Fleet's In), and in several others she has begun her love-making from behind a store counter. True to the Navy conforms to the Bow formula: a love-affair, a misunderstanding, a reunion. The formula depends for its success on quick sequences and energetic physical activity; usually makes fair entertainment; but True to the Navy drags. The dialog is the sort in which effects are concentrated in the word "Yeah" and while Bow gives a good performance Frederic March, who plays opposite her, is better suited in drawing room dramas. Real...