Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week at sea had tanned the President as brown as seaweed and wiped the wrinkles of fatigue from his face. Seated beside a card table spread with a buffet lunch, he was once more Roosevelt the Charming, swift with his comebacks, "wowing"' his audience with his retorts to every question. Had he fulfilled his desire of catching a "denizen of the deep?" No, indeed, but he had caught a "fish he did not recognize and was taking it back on ice to have the Smithsonian Institution tell him what it was. Where would the President cruise next? Off Tongue...
Back at Friedrichshafen after four days of high-altitude stumping, the Hindenburg underwent a swift overhaul, to prepare the brand-new ship for its real test-a voyage to South America under Captain Ernst August Lehmann. On its first transatlantic trip the Hindenburg, carrying 30 passengers, was scheduled to reach Rio de Janeiro in 80 hours. The voyage will be no novelty to Captain Lehmann. He grew up with the science of airship operation, was for years Dr. Hugo Eckener's right-hand...
Translations are tricky and most poets, at least, would say that poetry is untranslatable. Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), whom the late Lytton Strachey called "the Swift of poetry," and who is still the most widely read poet in France, was a well-to-do bourgeois who despised his class, lived most of his life with a mulatto mistress, took opium and scandalized even Paris with his Fleurs du Mal, which combined polish, putrescence and pornography to an inspired degree. Since his death he has been manhandled by many a translator. Last week the latest attempt to transplant his hot-house...
...march of education is a restless one, it knows no barriers of race or nationality in its swift progress. The center of gravity, political, economic, educational, is shifting westward still, contemporary sages tell us. It would be definitely valuable, then, to disprove Mr. Kipling's stern address to the white race. With such a shift comes necessary readjustment. And only by the exchange of understanding for ignorance can readjustment be facilitated...
...GUSTAVUS SWIFT PAINE...