Word: swashes
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...slim as a horse hair has sewn a cloak of fear about the misshapen Negroes of St. Kitt's (St. Christopher Island, among the British West Indies), and patched it with deaths. Over the 65 square miles of the island grief croons. Trading ships scurry from the swash of the Caribbean against Basseterre. A sort of pestilence is on the people. Dozens have died. Last week a white man, Dr. J. J. Pawan, bacteriologist, reached there by Pan-American plane from Port of Spain, Trinidad, and found the deaths due to a filariasis...
...staple goods, a staple price; each and every one costs two dollars. If you have not chosen yet, ask that newsdealer to hand you Rodomont (Putnam) by H. Bedford-Jones. Therein two shrewd and muscular sons of American forests swash and buckle about the craggy slopes of Mont St. Michel in the days of Louis XIV. Ham and eggs? Not precisely, but the same principle...
Only four months after its last appearance there, "The Bad Man", Porter Emerson Browne's famous comedy, is back on the Copley stage with Alan Mowbray again swaggering about and smoking innumerable cigarettes in the character of Pancho Lopez, the swash-buckling, villainous and altogether charming bandit hero...
...training here in comparatively smooth water is beginning to tell. The stroke is gaining in ease and power since the men are free of the swash caused by the walls of the Basin...
...story deals with the troubles of Granger, a pedantic principal of the college of Beauvais at Paris. The first act opens with an interview between Granger and Chateaufort, the swash buckler of the play, who comes to ask for the hand of Manon, the pedant's daughter. Granger does not want him, wishing to marry Manon to a rich peasant named Gareau, so he tells Chateaufort that he has a rival in La Tremblaye, a gentleman living near the college of Beauvais. Chateaufort goes away breathing threats of vengeance against La Tremblaye. Granger then turns to his own love affairs...