Word: swashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coakley has a pretty fair ball club in New York this year representing the Blue of Columbia University, but the pitching is woefully weak and will have to be spread over the schedule very sparingly. And even the most optimistic observer would not rate the Lions as a real swash-buckling crew of sluggers, needing only fair twirling to win games...
...that he flailed the heads of many European governments, thus contributing, of course, to the general harmony. Lastly, and most pertinent today is the aggressive Eastern policy of building a navy "second to none"; sending the fleet on threatening maneuvers in the Pacific; building forts; and generally using swash-buckling tactics of the approved Prussian model; all, of course, with intention of contributing to Japan's tranquillity...
...Keith Memorial Theatre is running this week at the Uptown Theatre. It is one of the finest pictures of the season and has enjoyed a just popularity. The Uptown is also showing that colorful, rhythmic short film entitled "La Cucaraclfa". Based on the picturesque song of Villa's swash-bucklers it is filmed in color and presents some very capable dancing and singing...
...Fred Goudy had designed his 92nd type face. To celebrate the event Manhattan's National Arts Club gave a reception in his honor, exhibited such typographical curiosities as a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible, an old hat belonging to Mr. Goudy, a gold matrix of a swash "G."* Spectators were informed that never before in the history of typography had anybody cut a matrix of gold. Mr. Goudy chose "G" because it stands for Goudy...
...Swash: a letter introduced into a type font for ornamental purposes...