Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procession passed before the Imperator of modern Rome. Black and brown troops from Tripoli, Eritrea and Somaliland stepped smartly. Green and white robed Meharis swooped in billowy formation, borne by swift camels. Savaris and Spahis wearing the bright colored burnoose curbed their desert steeds upon the cobblestones of Rome. Sixty thousand Fascist children marched with heads thrown back amid a surcharged silence more impressive than the wildest pandemonium...
...newspaper, the Times-Union, competes most successfully with the Hearstian Rochester Journal and Post-Express. Knowing that he could serve his readers better and compete still more successfully, Publisher Gannett sought, two years ago, to enroll his Times-Union in the Associated Press and bring into its columns the swift, unmuddied current of news that the A. P. pumps from all parts of the U. S. and the rest of the world. Publisher Hearst, whose Rochester paper, has access to that current, determined to block Publisher Gannett and did so by representing to the Associated Press that to grant another...
...even D. But it will be bad enough. The officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon, all of these are excellent. Or one could use the names of great captains of industry, Ford, Pinkham, Swift. Indeed there are all manner of delightfully apt names to adorn letter heads with. But A, B, C--really that is rather poor...
...Citizens of the U. S. favorable to the League of Nations recalled a statement of Sir Austen Chamberlain that the special Court conference is a mere common sense measure designed to get swift action upon the U. S. Senate's reservations by the nations already adherent to the World Court...
...revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...