Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swift & Co. has announced that it does not intend in the future to handle grocery articles. Wilson & Co. and Cudahy & Co. have no intention of reengaging in the business. After Armour & Co. there is more doubt, although many predict that they too will not resume grocery wholesaling...
LOVE FOR LOVE?Restoration quips of Congreve which have caught the modern fancy?swift and not unribald commentary...
...heretical Bishop sat on the dais, folded his black-gloved hands. A fascinated crowd waited the defiant climax when he should rise to utter swift-footed words. He walked to the front of the dais. Cheers resounded. He stretched forth his hand in benediction. He put his black-gloved finger to his lips, signifying they were sealed. He beamed with childish delight, returned to his seat...
...fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood On Its Head in the Dakota Country, until they trampled the mountain flat, leaving only the heaps of blood-darkened dust now called the Black Hills, none but a foreign reader will be reminded of Miinchausen, Swift, or Rabelais. That Paul Bunyan stood about 400 feet high in his orange and lavender checked wool socks; that he invented the logging industry and combed his beard with a young fir or redwood when thinking of other ways in which he might make history; that the salt, pepper...
WATLING'S - Horace Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well...