Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini...
President emeritus Lowell and his colleagues are singing their swan song of privilege by opposing the child labor law, and Harvard professors will be eligible for benefits from the Townsend Plan if it does not do better by them than it has done by its scrub-women...
...Advancement of Science, Dr. Thorndike is famed for researches in industrial, educational and animal psychology, is reputed to make use of everyone he encounters as research material. Dr. Thorndike found that his numerous subjects, asked to judge by sound alone, preferred such words as harmony, ma donna, resolute, serene, swan to such others as belch, waddle, stink and wart. But when the human sounding-boards were confronted with nonsense words there was no marked preference...
...From a shoulder strap to the top button of his tunic ran a golden cord. A black pearl pin ornamented his cravat. On his left breast blazed decorations headed by the Pour le Merite order. The Premier stood out from the brown background of his followers like a silver swan. His smile glittered like gold...
...other alliance was concluded between Edward B. Smith & Co. and Guaranty Co. President Joseph R. Swan, old time Yale footballer, and three other Guaranty officers will become Smith partners. i and the firm will move into the Guaranty ! offices, take over most of the Guaranty organization. In the even course of Smith affairs, entry of the Guaranty partners was ! expected to produce startling changes. Founded in Philadelphia some 40 years ago by the late Edward Brinton Smith, railroad banker, the firm grew slowly until after the i War. Then under a group of young Manhattan partners headed by John Wilson...