Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feeble and foolish though all this was, it was enough to thrill all China with the rumor that the Great Wu had stirred himself, would presently arise to sweep the Japanese out of North China. Significantly Japanese Army officers, who normally love nothing better than a good provoking "incident," disclaimed all interest in the episode, described it as a "small mutiny" in the Chinese armies...
Chace, stroke of the Freshman shell, was elected captain and shortly afterward opened the wound on his hand by striking it against an outrigger, but Bert says that the injury will not prevent him from pulling the pacing sweep on Friday...
...Pizzicato Polka Strauss *Overture, "William Tell" Rossini *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas (Guest cond.--Timothee Adamowski) "Sylvan Suite," Second Movement Strube (Guest conductor--Gustav Strube) *"Samson and Delilah," Fantasia Saint-Saens (Guest conductor--Clement Lenom) "Five Decades" (Hans Wiener Dancers with Orchestra) First Decade, 1885-1895, The immortal Strauss waltzes sweep around the world. *Waltzes from "Thousand and One Nights" Johann Strauss Second Decade, 1895-1905. Ragtime makes its bid for popularity Cakewalk, "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" Lee Terny Third Decade, 1905-1915. Importation of South American rhythms. *Tango, "El Choclo" Villolodo Fourth Decade, 1915-1925. Dance of the Allied...
...cheer the writer (possibly subsidized) who disparages Woodrow Wilson, Walter Hines Page, Lord Bryce etc. etc. and who applauds the notorious People's Council, the Pacifist resolutions of 1917, Gum Shoe Bill Stone and all that ilk? This, your favorite writer for the week, also takes a sweep at Teddy Roosevelt, whom he calls treasonable! . . . Let all the patriots of any decade be dressed as punks and fools, let Judas Iscariot himself be painted with a halo. Let up be down and down up, and you have a Millis book and five columns...
...Bliss, Johnny Dorman, and Bill O'Connor, Harvard might sweep the 800 over Ryan, Yale half miler who took second against Princeton last Saturday. In any case Harvard should sweep the 1500, if Scheu and Bliss both run it, as they probably will. Bob Woodward is good for a place over Yale's best...