Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marry. The son, a neurotic, effeminate youth, bursts into helpless hysteria. It is this last part that Mr. Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy, one of the sharpest, funniest comedies that you are likely to witness through the winter...
...movements of his chunky body, the very sheen of his black hair and the flashing smile on his wide mouth, gave an impression of prime mental masculinity that has attracted colleagues and stimulated faltering students. "Here," say the latter, "is a man who makes molehills of mountains. He is swift, sure, knows what is wanted. Though warmhearted, he is cold-blooded toward examinations. He spots them, stabs them. I am a fool, but he will, for a deserved sum, equip me for this coming crisis...
Some feared that Walker would be weakened in making the weight of 147 pounds, and some thought Shade's weaving, twisting, doubled-up way of fighting, with his stiff punch and swift attack, would be too much for the Champion...
After the death of President Ernest DeWitt Burton late last May, Professors Billings, Tufts, Manly, Gale, Woodward and Laing of the University of Chicago knitted brows with Trustees Harold H. Swift (meats), Martin A. Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality...
Said Trustee Swift: "We are delighted ... he is a man supremely fitted to succeed the three presidents, Harper, Judson and Burton, under whose leadership the university has seen its first chapters of development...