Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Earth was picked, said the prize-awarding committee, "for its epic sweep, its distinct and moving characterization, its sustained story-interest, its simple and yet richly colored style." The choice was doubly happy for Authoress Buck. A few days prior had been published her third novel, The Young Revolutionist...
Last week the House of Representatives threw its lawmaking machinery into reverse to sweep the books clean of obsolete statutes. After five minutes debate it passed a bill repealing 1,006 old sections of the Revised Statutes and sent the measure to the Senate. The legal effect of such legislation was to fit the Revised Statutes precisely to the Code, thereby, for all practical purposes, making the Code the law of the land. The omnibus repealer provided that the elimination of these 1,006 old statutes was not to be interpreted that they were really the law when wiped...
...Garner's speech was prolix. It reeked with the banalities of the politician. It brought forth no new facts or arguments. It was, by no stretch of the imagination, an historic oration. But it did have one great quality?earnestness?and with that alone the Speaker was able to sweep the House back to order and action. The Ways & Means Committee hastily evolved a new set of tax schemes to fill the void left by the Sales Tax. Leaders of the late insurgency fell over themselves to pledge support to this substitute program. United by the Garner speech and perhaps...
...town's language. Their faces-wrinkled and burned by the sun, shadowed by visored caps-are part of a tradition of hot U. S. afternoons with crowds in shirtsleeves, ice cream in wilting cones and baseball players deployed, in excitingly soiled playing clothes, across the wide sweep of turf. St. Louis, especially, is a baseball town. To Sportsman's Park, isolated from the city by a wide belt of old brick houses, garages and disused beer gardens, come all the riffraff of the homely town, and most of its substantial citizens...
...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...