Word: trice
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...Money is what counts in an election but fine phrases help and James William Good knows it. It is very much like being an apostolic missionary. Sometimes you have to wrestle for a man's political soul for hours and hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice with a ponderous period. And tiresome though it is to turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about...
...trice the powerful right arm of Marshal Pilsudski had raised up Mile. Janusewska. Having saluted her with respectful gallantry, he turned to the other pilgrims. "I myself will finish the beautiful speech of this young lady. I know that you greet me in the name of all Polish-Americans. I welcome you here and I ask you to kiss all your friends, when you return, both Polish and American, in behalf of the land of Poland...
...Martha, I'll tell you what . . If you'll take the letter, I'll let you ride around the block on my tricycle. . . I'll let you ride around twice. . . Think of that! . . You can ride around trice on my twicycle . . I mean twice on my tricycle. . Well, then, I'll let you come to my circus next Saturday free, and its going to be ten pins for everybody else. . . I'll give you half this piece of chewing gum. . . And two of these keys and this, whistle and I'll let you whittle with my knife some...
...wrathful Freshman, in a trice...
Some pointed joke that in a trice...