Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sharpest tomahawk to be flipped in Mr. Ickes' direction came from Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who devoted three columns to Mr. Ickes and what Pegler called the "Social-Democratic party." Quick to claim his scalp, Columnist Pegler whooped : "In this world every guy has a sign on at least one other guy, and Harold Ickes is my guy." The Pegler war dance: ". . . Mr. Ickes is so cheap that when he gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted...
Metropolitan newspapers were quick to point out that the Burke-Wadsworth Bill promises no specific draft exemption for married men. It was still quite on the cards that the Army and Navy might well require a year's service in uniform of all able-bodied U. S. men, wife or no wife...
...could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever...
...interview given was in violation of standing instructions of the Department of State . . . views expressed by the Ambassador are not . . . the views of this Government. . . . By direction of the President, Ambassador Cudahy has been requested to return . . . immediately for consultation." Said John Cudahy, packing in London for a quick trip to Lisbon and thence to the U. S. by Clipper: "I know I am going home to be crucified, but the truth must be told...
Since the beginning of World War II British doctors, fearing another epidemic, have sought a quick, simple cure for the disease. Last week in the Lancet, Dentist John James Duncan King of the University Field Laboratories in Sheffield, England announced that he had found one: nicotinic acid...