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...meaning, the word "spiv" had definitely become a part of the King's English. Last week the Right Honorable Ralph Assheton, M.P., escorted it formally into Hansard's (the British Congressional Record) and immortality. Britain, he said on the floor of Parliament, was sinking into a socialist swamp of "spiv-economy...
...night last week, a converted C-47 of the small, G.I.-owned Burke Air Lines took off from Newark with 31 Puerto Rican passengers. Just before dawn, over the swampy flatlands near Melbourne, Fla., first one, then the second engine failed. The plane smashed through swamp pine, broke open like a melon on the soggy ground. Twenty-one were dead. Fifteen had somehow survived...
Rainbow's Start. It was not the humble swamp from which the Argentine rainbow first rose that earned her the haughty looks of B.A.'s aristocrats; it was the murky clouds through which she had climbed to arch so gracefully over their heads...
Some of these are naturally silted from the swamp above Mount Auburn cemetary; with others the ground glass bottom has been imported by generations of volunteer fireman's picnics. Their popularity is attested by statistics. Police pull far more bodies from the river's alluvial bed than from its verdant bush...
...born Defendant Chandler had been an officer in the U.S. Navy in World War I, worked as a newspaperman in Baltimore. He had married a wealthy woman. In 1931, ruined by the depression, he left the U.S., talking bitterly of the "unAmerican fog spreading over the land from the swamp of imported Jewish-Bolshevik subversion." With his wife and two small daughters, he had settled in Germany. Soon, Douglas Chandler embraced Naziism...