Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevertheless, in deference to those students, not socialists, who find themselves embarrassed on one hand by the relations existing between Harvard University, which presumably prepares men to go out and create better civilization, and West Point, which trains men to sweep that civilization off the face of the earth, and on the other hand by the fact that the business department of the Harvard Athletic Association has invited here the West Point cadets in the name of the student body, no demonstration will take place...
...officer on the Italian Front, of his campaigns and leaves of absence, of the swarming Caparetto retreat, of the Lieutenant's affair with Catharine Barkley, an English nurse who died in childbirth when he had deserted the wars and taken her to Switzerland, is infused with the chaotic sweep of armies and tenderly quiescent love. In its sustained, inexorable movement, its throbbing preoccupation with flesh and blood and nerves rather than the fanciful fabrics of intellect, it fulfills the prophecies that his most excited admirers have made about Ernest Hemingway. His mannered style, consciously bald, may still be annoying...
...York's Congressman La Guardia issued the civil war warning, thus: "At some place at some time the wrong person will be shot and the people of that locality will retaliate. When that happens such a spirit may sweep this country that our people will rebel against this tyranny. Prohibition is not worth plunging the country into civil...
Among last week's winners were Nottingham Cricketer Julian Cahn who won £62,000 ($300,000) in the London Stock Exchange Sweepstakes, Widow Kathleen McGrath of Dublin who won £25,000 in the Baltic Sweep, Clerk Butler of the Amalgamated Motors Ltd., Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa who had a Calcutta Sweepstakes ticket but was reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity...
...Western Front. We feel the Front in our blood. Shells whistle, our senses sharpen. We feel the animal in us. we want to hide in the earth. An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline before us. Great heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember the gas patients coughing out their burnt lungs in clots. I don my mask. Like a big, soft jellyfish the gas floats...