Word: swept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anyway, I'm against any revision of the thing via emotion. The Eighteenth Amendment was swept in by emotion. Governor Smith wants to get a change by emotion, inspired by his magnetic personality and popular appeal. I'd much rather trust the question to a mind like Hoover's, that will get the facts...
...Louis, so goes the State." Example: When Harry Bartow Howes, Missouri's present junior U. S. Senator, was running for office in 1926, an opponent belittled his act, at the beginning of the War, of escorting the late Mrs. Lily Busch out of Germany. The German vote arose, swept Howes to office...
...Brooklyn last week, one Harry Kaufmann entered a subway train, sat quietly for a while, began to inspect a Mrs. Anna Prisco directly opposite him. Scorning the naked eye, he swept her with enormous binoculars, peered at her. Mrs. Prisco expressed annoyance. Peerer Kaufmann slapped her. Soon a chivalrous crowd attacked Mr. Kaufmann. Policemen saved him from massacre, jailed...
...jovial column conductor who had once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics. One of these, an ash-blonde beauty, lured Marry to her studio, and quickly taught him that his slangy little slum girl was wanting in veneer. But his slangy little Josephine bought herself books on rhetoric and elocution, and disappeared temporarily from Marry's scheme of things...
...detectives of their prey showed that all 42 of the creatures arrested lacked certificates showing that the legal taxes and import duties had been paid upon their diamonds. With anguished faces and painful stomachs, they watched while unswallowed diamonds to a total weight of 2,000 carats were swept and gathered up by the police...