Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigor swift, his passion long...
...song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus, and Producer White in person. Willie and Eugene Howard were part of what was funny; the rest was Arthur Page who gave tongue to this pretty berceuse: "Buy low, sell high, buy low, sell...
...masters-rich Creoles, and supercilious whites. A slave born of slave parents, Pierre-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, First of the Blacks, established in 1801 an independent constitution. He was well under way with a promising period of reconstruction when Napoleon took time to consider his refractory colonies. A swift intelligent military campaign subdued Toussaint's able generals. Toussaint himself was taken unscrupulously by ruse, and imprisoned in France-to be mourned in lines by Wordsworth...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate tycoon, hopped into his $75,000 speedboat, Fan Tail, with famed Actress Adele Astaire (Funny Face). Giving the crank a swift turn, he caused the gasoline seepage to burst into a fan of flame. The actress, her dress ablaze, fell to the floor. Leeds grabbed her, lugged her to the dock; then he pushed the Fan Tail into the harbor where it soon exploded and sank. On the; dock watching this performance was Mrs. William B. Leeds, onetime Princess Xenia of Greece, and Fred Astaire, brother to Adele. With their help, William B. Leeds, though...
Seventeen years ago, the fast, graceful Mauretania outstripped her sister liners, logged 676 nautical miles in 24 hours. On a swift dash to Honolulu in 1923, the light cruiser Omaha set a 24-hr, record of 690 miles and linked the U. S. with Hawaii in 75 hours, 40 minutes, 40 seconds...