Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viewing the production itself, one must accept the fact that Sidney Howard, the author, made no serious attempt to sweep his audience off its feet. The violent emotions of fear, hate, and rage, that Harvard's eminent Dr. Cannon has so well described are permitted to lie dormant. Effects are obtained by the presentation of agreeable and familiar types, involved in situations which bring out character and comedy...
Having waved over mine, shop and factory, the magic wand of the NRA was last week poised for its last big sweep, over the retail stores of the land. After public incantations which began in August and backstage sorcery continued all through September, the Retail Code was nearly ready for the President to approve and invoke...
...Lake George, N. Y. in his 11-year-old hydroplane El Lagarto: the President's Cup race, with 1,161 points to 1,122 for Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VII. First craft to win the President's Cup twice, El Lagarto made a clean sweep of this year's important races of her class, including the National Sweepstakes at Red Bank, N. J., the Gold Cup at Detroit...
...unsuccessful attempts to dent the Varsity forward wall, gave it up as a bad job and punted short to their 40. Within scoring territory, the Varsity opened up with an aerial attack and Nazro snagged a Wells pass for 20 yards. Lane accounted for the second tally on a sweep from the 12-yard line...
...Bradstreet reported a sharp gain in retail buying. Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment...