Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through minute after minute Henry Ford watched the swift, straight, line of bathtub-cars with a fascinated gaze...
Last week, an expected baby again appeared as a news item. The despatch, sent by the Associated Press wire, was dated from Chicago. Who in Chicago was important enough to have an impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain...
Louis Waldman, onetime Assemblyman of New York, rose and nominated Norman Thomas to be Socialist candidate for the Presidency of the U. S. Cameron King of California cried his swift second to the nomination. The Convention shouted, cheered, applauded. Some, throaty with emotion, sang the Internationale. Six minutes passed. Candidate Thomas, in accepting the nomination, said that James H. Maurer ought to have been the party's candidate...
...Berlin, Frau Koehl joyously celebrated her husband's 40th birthday and packed her prettiest dresses for a swift trip to Manhattan as the guest of the North German Lloyd's Dresden...
...Swift coursing news must be speeded onto paper by a lightning, decisive mind. Necessarily the titans of newspaperdom have been dictators-James Gordon Bennett, Joseph Pulitzer, Viscount Northcliffe. These men had no time, in business moments, for Democracy or its delays. They are dead, but their dynamic Shades must have approved, last week, when that trampler upon Democracy, Signor Benito Mussolini,* was impetuously championed in the London Daily Mail by its owner, Lord Rothermere, brother and successor to the late Lord Northcliffe...