Word: swift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...readers that one cannot wish it less in quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...
...Committees for the Freshman Dormitories. The Standish Committee is composed of the following men: Howard Elliott, Jr., chairman, of Boston; Mitchell Gratwick, of Buffalo, N. Y.; R. N. Greenwood, of Boston, and Henry Francis Colt, of Geneseo, N. Y. The Committee of Gore consists of the following: John G. Swift, of Boston, chairman; John Crocker, of Fitchburg; Geoffrey Story Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa; and James Wesson Freeman, of Boston...
...following men from the Sophomore and Freshman classes reported for the business competition: 1921--G. W. Howe, T. M. Perry, R. S. Ward; 1922--J. V. Bright, E. K. Dunham, Jr., K. R. Groener, E. V. Otis, J. G. Swift, Jr., E. D. Weatherhead...
...living illustration of what used rather weakly to be called "the scholar in politics". He dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host, a crack companion in the mountains, a swift counsellor in public affairs, an administrator who went at his ends like an arrow to the quarry...
...Robert Swift Gillett...