Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the leftward hosts of Franklin Roosevelt swept the 1932 elections, they immediately staged a series of public trials, with Congressional committees as the juries, of prominent pillars of the Right. Wondrous entertaining to "forgotten" men was the parade of Charles E. Mitchell...
Readers of Ferdinand Lundberg's best-selling America's 60 Families were interested to note in the press that Newport's swank, seaweedy Bailey's Beach, swept clean by September's hurricane, is being revamped. When family applications for the new $1,000 cabanas were added up. the total came to exactly...
...this book, Odon von Horvath was walking along the Champs Elysees in Paris. The usual crowd was all around him, straining against a high wind. It was June, and the trees were gay and green with their new foliage-except for one huge, dying chestnut tree. A sudden gust swept against it. It tottered, cracked, started to fall. Von Horvath, preoccupied, did not hear the people scream as he walked into its shadow. The dead tree crushed him dead, and Odon von Horvath had his wish...
Although the blast of warm air and rain which swept over New England on Wednesday has left in its wake skiing conditions which are predominantly poor, several centers, including Cannon Mt., Pinkham Notch, Waterville Valley, and Stowe, Vt., report fair conditions with a dusting of new snow over a breakable crust...
...next 14 years, has said he was ". . . small, black, stubby, unquiet, disquieting, with sombre, deep, piercing, strange, almost fixed eyes. Awkward gestures, feminine hands, ill-dressed, ill-cared for. A thick, black, brilliant forelock divided the intelligent protuberant forehead. Half-bohemian, half-workman in his dress; his overlong hair swept the collar of a tired coat...