Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Providence 61 years ago, he was graduated from Brown, became a migrating lawyer, finally settled in Louisville. His corporation practice put him at the head of Louisville Gas Co. He acquired coal mines, dipped into politics, was carried to Washington as Kentucky's Senator by the Coolidge sweep of 1924. Short, sandy, round-stomached, he plodded through his term, rarely made a speech, much less an oration. He was on the way to becoming a "lame duck" in this year's campaign when President Hoover selected him for Berlin for two chief reasons: 1) Republican Kentucky was restive...
...player will hold the court. In a doubles match the players move so fast that without their bright shirts in solid contrasting colors you could not tell the teams apart. Two rhythms work in jai alai like the separate yet dependent movements of a fugue. One is the sweep of the cesta. catching the ball on the back swing, throwing it the same second with a stab or a sweep, depending upon whether the player wants to make a long shot or a cut. The other rhythm is the movement of the spectators' faces left and right-first toward...