Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Since the present Free State executive council or "cabinet" has only 46 supporters in the Dail Eireann (lower chamber) of 153, the entrance of 45 De Valera deputies seemed to promise the swift overthrow of President Cosgrave whose office corresponds exactly to that of "Premier...
...absent one returns, he finds them once more at the field, dock, or station, pre-.pared to clasp his hand. All four are sons of the King and Emperor George V; and neither storm nor snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these brothers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds...
...crooning and outflung gesturing of primitive Africans, it is logical that the Negro revue should crop up more frequently, with growing success. In Manhattan, the nation's theatrical headquarters, only two new shows opened last week. Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms frankly and disarmingly Negroid, understands the art of "living" her songs, so that they take on dramatic...
...Bunny's "Wobbly" comrades for whom great sympathy is obtained by their physical dis tresses including suicide by drowning in an oil well. All actual personages save the three Presidents of the era - Wilson, Harding, Coolidge - are heavily disguised, Aimee McPherson even appearing male. The action, so swift that it becomes uneventful, embraces Bunny's biography to his enlightened midtwenties and the father's up to his death in Europe as an oil-smeared refugee from U. S. justice. The properties are conscientiously collected and arranged in about onethird of the book but Author Sinclair evidently...
...earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast-all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read TIME is to take an extended journey on the swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills me as a sensational airplane ride, with its gyrations, its quick twists and turns and glides-nose-dive, falling leaf, swallow flight, tail spin, loop-the-loop...