Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, let two sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†-Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats...
...must include 200,000 reservists who have served in the Reichswehr and would augment this perfectly drilled army overnight. . . .We are told that Germany plans only to defend her own frontier with these forces. I warn you that the German war theory now, as before the War, involves swift attack and the occupation of a large portion of Belgium. German military philosophy may be summed up in three rules: Work fast, attack, and carry the war into the enemy's territory...
...explanation of the voluntary Turkish social revolution is that Turks see the Coolidge type of nation as a desired goal capable of swift and glorious attainment- where U. S. citizens have not yet sighted any super-Coolidge goal...
...book is indeed enormous, covering as it does Napoleon's early life in Corsica, the tremendous activity of his years of power, and the six years of solitude in St. Helena, which are described as fully as any other period in his life. The tempo and the style are swift, an artistic device to convey the energy of the subject. It is successful too in suggesting the development of Napoleon's plans with the progress of his achievements. No premature dreams of world dominion are attributed to the Artillery officer when he is still intriguing unsuccessfully for mastery of Corsica...
...been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song...