Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Magoo (by Gene Fowler & Ben Hecht; Billy Rose, producer). Broadway, Burlesque, Privilege Car, Lily Turner led a diminishingly interested theatrical public behind the scenes of a night club, a burlesque show, a circus, a medicine show. With one savage sweep, hard-boiled Messrs. Fowler & Hecht have cleaned up the list by setting their play in a sideshow, musicomedy rehearsal hall and flea circus. What happens: A barker (Paul Kelly), who considers all women "magoos" (unflattering sideshow epithet), finally falls in love with a carnival queen (Claire Carlton). When ambition leads her to throw in her lot with a theatrical...
...about slapping faces, seizing cigars and pipes, and crying that every-one at Harvard was a hellion. The students enjoyed every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep her to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the 2000 men who jammed the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of crysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...
...beneficiary by purchasing all land east and south of the centre line of the river from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. This could readily be done, without great additional cost to taxpayers, by crediting England with the purchase price on her War Debt."* At one sweep Mr. Ten Eyck would add approximately 177,398 sq. mi. to U. S. territory, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the southern part of Quebec...
...wanted rather than the kind he thought it ought to have. No section had a right to dictate to him. to demand favors. The South? He could have won easily without it. The West? It was not a necessary ingredient of his victory. The Republican Progressives? Without them his sweep would have been the same. Such far-flung support would give him. if he chose to take it. extraordinary independence of action. He had a Congress overwhelmingly friendly in which to work his will. He started with a clean record, free from "sorehead" enemies in his own party or organized...
Died. Abraham E. Lefcourt, 55, Manhattan realtor; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance...