Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever been seen at a top-drawer Mayfair ball. Each of the young men, fine apple-cheeked lads mostly and quick to blush, was given a Leap-Year favor which he had to decide on the spot to wear either red side out or green side out. On the red side was lettered, "Stop. Do not propose." On the green, "Go ahead, you may propose." After no end of gay squealing...
...Badlands have been patrolled by slovenly, bullyish Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen known as the Ta Tao Boys (for the puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that...
Sure enough, this turned out to be the year Jimmy Demaret's number turned up. Playing with magic precision around the green, he made Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ralph Guldahl and other champs look like Sunday-morning chumps. In quick succession he won the Oakland Open, the San Francisco Match Play tournament, the Western Open (in his own home town), and the New Orleans Open...
...Million," now playing in Boston leads a hectic life. Up at 11 in the morning, breakfast then the funnies and fan mail. "Flash Gordon's my favorite, he's so well drawn," Corbina confessed. Voice lessons and rehearsals take up most of the afternoon and then she takes a quick nap before the evening show...
...more about it." Nicola Scricca fixed up a big altar, told reporters: "Every day we pray here-my wife and four children. Today it was our 'Mass.' I read and they are the congregation. It is the best we can do. . . . We will make things right as quick as we can. . . . You watch, it will be okay...