Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catching up as a contemporary historian. His history of Our Times (1900-25) began appearing in 1926. has now reached 1918. This fifth volume, as full as the others of forgotten details for which historians will be grateful and plain readers too. shows the U. S. in its swiftest recent years...
England's swiftest, swankest sports car used to be the Bentley, defunct since 1931. This year Rolls-Royce Ltd. have revived the Bentley as a name with even greater prestige among sportsmen than their own. Last week the King-Emperor's youngest son, Prince George, opened London's 27th annual Motor Show, lingered longest at the Bentley booth. Soon Rolls-Royce announced that their whole 1934 output of Bentleys had been sold "largely to private owners." despite the fact that the cheapest Bentley is priced...
...John Frank lin, rode their own mounts. The others had been invited to ride by horse-owning friends whose silks they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both stake-winners. Mrs. "Jock" Whitney was astonished and so were the bookies, who promptly set her down as a 5-to-1 shot, made Pompeius...
...meals to the Moscow Restaurant Trust the issue was: who has been putting hair into their cabbage soup, leaving bits of metal in their meat balls, giving them sugar with sand in it ? The State said that Oshkin was the man. With a whoop one of Moscow's swiftest propaganda trials was on. It lasted five clays, all devoted to accusation & proof. "The defense," cried the defense attorney, ''is unable to offer any defense!" By the time the State got through Oshkin had put into the sugar not only sand but powdered glass. He and his eleven...
...executive will. The oldest, closest and most trusted of these is Raymond Moley. He is not a great man but he is a powerful one. His influence on the Administration is felt far beyond his nominal job of Assistant Secretary of State. Through his ear is the shortest and swiftest route to the heart of the White House. He does not make up the President's mind for him but he supplies the raw material on which that mind is made up. What Postmaster General Farley & Col. Howe are to President Roosevelt in the realm of practical politics...