Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intention that his countrymen might find in the book much that would take them home from wherever they might be on the earth. So he wrote of the fragrance and spaciousness of an Irish mansion as old as the green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like a soft threat...
Alexander I, youthful sovereign of the five-year-old kingdom of Jugoslavia,* motored gaily last week through the ominously famed city of Sarajevo. There he saw a chimney sweep-in the Balkans an omen of good luck. Smiling, His Majesty stopped the royal motor, offered the chimney sweep 100 dinars ($1.76) for two straws from his grimy brush. Astonished and suspicious, the chimney sweep refused to sell even one straw. Outraged, the royal chauffeur revealed his master's identity: "Louse of a chimney sweep! Do you defy your King...
...What this Government needs is a political upheaval to sweep away the dead wood. I do not hesitate to ask my party associates what the Democratic party is here for? To join in these nefarious schemes? To unite with Mellon in all his demands? A few days ago my secretary (Hicklin Yates) defined a Democrat as one who worships at the shrine of Woodrow Wilson and votes with Andrew Mellon. The Republicans at least have a policy?even though it is a buccaneering expedition...
...biggest canvases of the year, a high and deep wilderness panorama, the Great Valley or Shenando Country?New Virginia, as they called it, whither John Selkirk came with his family to have the God of his Scotch fathers in peace. Historical fidelity and great narrative sweep are executive abilities of the author, who came to fame in 1900 with To Have and to Hold, and last year scored with another novel of early Virginia, The Slave Ship...
...Significance. Mr. Bullitt's story is too crisp and close-packed for adequate retelling. It is set down with a force, sweep and wine-laden atmosphere quite its own. On these first credentials alone the author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...