Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five weeks before the Republican National Convention Mr. Coolidge announced that he had chosen William M. Butler to be the next Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The unusually early date of the announcement was interpreted as a swift kick to speed the retiring Chairman (John T. Adams), who had supported Daugherty and Denby and generally annoyed the President. Last week Mr. Adams said his adieus...
...unprejudiced observer wishes nothing but success to Miss Crane, and to any others of a like age who are planning an early career of letters; but it is only right, though possibly unkind, to point out the ominous fact that most early-blossoming geniuses come to a swift and untimely end. The field of music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time...
...type of delivery in which a swift ball is aimed at or close to the batter's head to shake his nerve, drive him away from the plate?or knock...
...playing of Lenhart and Captain Gordon, Harvard's two ranking players, was the feature of the afternoon. Evans, leader of the Andover team, who is number seven in the National Junior ranking, and who had not previously been beaten this year, fell before the swift and accurate drives and powerful serves of Lenhart after a three set struggle...
...wielded rapiers rather than fountain pens, and shocked an apathetic world with flying gauntlets instead of with a satire which too often goes unperceived. On the other hand, the bitterness with which these gentlemen are wont to attack beloved American traditions might be considerably tempered by a realization that swift vengeance by a biting blade would probably follow an unguarded word...