Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did smart, swart Assistant U. S. Attorney General Brien McMahon and his corps of helping lawyers and investigators from Washington learn something last week about the dignity and ignorance of Kentucky's rural poor. The lesson was equally onerous for young Mr. McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded...
Time was when short, swart, flamboyant Harry Stutz roared around the country in his racer, brought back cups to Indianapolis to show that the Stutz was the fastest U. S. car. In 1916 Manhattan financiers made him a good offer for his company, and he sold out. Stutz Motor Car Co. of America Inc. had 13 resounding deficits during the next 16 years...
Cheered by 100,000 gathered at El Campo de la Victoria outside Saragossa, the swart little President of Rightist Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, celebrated the first anniversary of his Cabinet last week by having a radio chat with the people of Leftist Spain. Cried Spain's Robert E. Lee, purporting to address Spain's Abraham Lincoln, the Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin...
Massachusetts' swart little Congressman Joe Martin, who since January 1937 has been Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, was awaiting only the result of the first Congressional primary of the year in Illinois next week before going into action as the key-man in what may well turn out to be the most significant election battle in his party's history...
...Last Gangster (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finds swart, satchel-mouthed Edward G. Robinson. Hollywood's personification of the big, bad racketeer, still doing business at the old stand...