Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...same car were political advisers: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
...usual" last week. The 200 sleek, well-dressed underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...
...prove one of his main points, the necessity for simplicity, directness, and speed, Corwin quoted the lead-off sentences of several plays and pointed out that they "jump right into the action." "Paint the scene with a quick flourish," he advised would-be dramatists...
...sense of anticipation, a formidable straight arm, powerful leg drive that shakes off tacklers like tenpins, a confounding change of pace and rumba hips, make a Harmon touchdown run a memorable performance. In addition to his ball-carrying talents, he is a better-than-average blocker, passer, punter, placekicker, quick-kicker and kickoff...
...Quick to defend its editorial freedom was the Herald Tribune. Recalling that it had printed another Thompson column the week before, endorsing Roosevelt, the Herald Tribune declared that last week's article was "misleading" by itself, had been "withheld . . . pending the full development of Miss Thompson's views." Two days later the Herald Tribune duly printed the missing column...