Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister was intimating to the House that he favors the building of a railway tunnel under the British Channel (see International). The purport of easy-going Mr. Baldwin's care less remark was, in effect, that he would not be surprised if the forthcoming general election should sweep his party (Conservative) out of their present absolute majority control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that it would be in the public interest to deal with this...
After a preliminary, characteristic sweep of the left hand over his thin black hair, Tycoon Young hitched his chair a trifle and said...
...tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable, A glittering sword out of the east. A puff of wind And those white glimmering fragments of the mist sweep by. A lover of fine typography, Yeats himself prints books. His press is part of the Cuala Industries run by the Yeats family -one sister manages the embroidery department, another the hand-press, and a brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served...
...only Babe Ruth rendered his verdict in just such a test? The name of an equally famous athlete who is rumored to have chosen wrongly has not been as widely circulated; nevertheless his example may serve to comfort any similar unfortunates in today's sweep-stakes. But no loyal son of a college whose team has defeated Yale's in a competitive examination can doubt that when the smokes of battle have cleared away the last white line will have been passed with at least an honors grade...
...direction, past Old Marston, where Cromwell planned his campaign against Oxford, is as sweet a village as any in England. Wood Eaton, sleeping beside a little stream that winds in and out of coppices and fields; and going farther in this direction one comes to Islip, Noke, the grand sweep of Otmoor, and the leafy vale of the Thame. Going north from Oxford, one can visit Woodstock and stately Blenheim; or, if one is awed by this great place, one can turn a little to the west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode...