Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst of klieg-lit euphoria, no less an authority than Producer and Play-tinker George Abbott once claimed that Author Shulman "seems distantly related to Dean Swift and Rabelais." This book proves that the feather merchant of U.S. humor is still keeping his distance...
...Orange. N.J., a fiction factory employing from 10 to 20 free-lance writers around the nation. Founded in 1907 by the late Edward Stratemeyer. who himself wrote under half a dozen pseudonyms, the syndicate's stable of interchangeable writers endlessly creates new volumes in such series as Tom Swift Jr., The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Happy Hollisters, The Dana Girls, The Bobbsey Twins, Honeybunch and Norman. These cannot be found on most library shelves; yet children always manage to have them in hand, and they sell at a rate of 2,000,000 a year...
Purpose & Power. Crow's neatly proportioned (6 ft. 2 in., 214 lbs.) frame surrounds awesome talent. His choppy, hustling stride sheds tacklers; he is a vicious blocker and a shrewd, swift safety man. On offense or defense, his specialty is hitting opponents with skill, purpose and power. Last year, when Tackle Bobby Lockett teamed up with End John Tracey to bring down Texas Christian's great Halfback Jim Swink, Crow came up to "secure" the tackle, as the football euphemism goes. He knocked both Swink and Tracey goggle-eyed, and Tackle Lockett was belted right...
...could have been at further remove from the new-found refinement of the great country houses than Satirist William Hogarth, whose province was the raucous underside of London. Hogarth painted The Painter and His Pug as an unframed self-portrait, propped up by volumes of Shakespeare, Swift and Milton, and intended it to be used as the frontispiece for his collected engraved works. Later, after he engaged in a ferocious political quarrel with John Wilkes and Charles Churchill (no kin), Hogarth issued a fresh impression. In it his portrait was replaced by a vitriolic caricature of "Bruiser" Churchill, drawn...
...With the exception of some brief flashes of good hockey in the first period, the Crimson did just about everything wrong. The offense had great trouble in controlling the puck long enough to get an organized attack started while the defense was very slow in covering the swift B.U. forwards. Backchecking by the lines was very poor and in the second period especially, the Terriers were able to organize three-on-two attacks from their own blue line...