Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawn before the house and Franklin Roosevelt went out on the terrace to greet them. He had carried his district by 336 votes to Landon's 307, but again lost the village as a whole by nearly 200 votes. "From the returns now it looks as though this sweep has carried every single section of the country," laughed the President...
...Lazare Meersom, whose work U. S. audiences have heretofore seen only in French pictures like Carnival in Flanders, a free hand. Brilliantly matched with the glittering poetry of the play are its rich backgrounds-huge dark trees in Arden forest, the barnyard where Orlando and his brother wrestle, the sweep of marble stairs above Duke Frederick's garden...
...Catholic-Fascist movement which takes its name from Chrisfus Rex. The Rexist newsorgan, Rex, had just boldly admitted that M. Degrelle had visited Berlin a few weeks before. Doubtless emboldened by Nazi bigwigs, he openly threatened last week to bring 250,000 Rexists on chartered trains to Brussels and "sweep out the van Zeeland Government!" This Rexist rashness caused Belgium's Premier to forbid the railways to run the chartered trains. Disgruntled Rex declared that such Rexists as assembled would not bear arms, headlined' "YOU WANT DEAD BODIES, M. VAN ZEELAND. BUT YOU WILL NOT GET THEM...
...have always placed great reliance on the "Literary Digest" presidential poll," he said, "but this year I don't know. In New Bedford, I understand the Digest shows Roosevelt to have a slight lead, but all our private polls indicate a Landon sweep...
Making a clean sweep of the soccer series Dartmouth won a second booting victory from Harvard Saturday as the Green Freshmen beat the Crimson...