Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Charles H. Swift, potent packer, to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano, opera star; in the University of Chicago Chapel...
...sheer intellectual pins-and-needles it jabs into me-spurring to action ("Write that letter!"), inspiring to wisecrack with my wife ("Do drop 'Thanks for the buggy ride,' George!") See? TIME'S informatory value being "as every one knows," taken for granted-accurate, complete, swift. . . . But, my dear Sirs, isn't that an absurd paragraph I have just composed? It is a tyro's effort to paraphrase TIME style. It chokes with adjectives. It halts and confuses and baffles even me, who wrote it. And it reminds me very much-including its possibilities...
...Swift Indian runners, barefoot, blanketed, brought newborn babes for baptism. Toothless Mexican gaffers, perhaps pagans* all their lives, hobbled in frenzied haste to receive a precious sprinkling of holy water...
...they understand the beauty of our city Who are not connoisseurs of loveliness? For it is not the beauty of gay lights; Nor of swift moving crowds; nor quick young laughter ; Nor of shop-thronged streets; nor the sharp hard clink of money Passing from fist to fist. Rather it is the beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down...
Engaged. Charles H. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co. (meat, glue, fertilizer, gelatin, wool, leather, soap); to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano (Metropolitan and Chicago Opera, recently in concert). In Chicago she said: "American men are the loveliest to marry...