Word: swiftly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grounds for divorce in England from adultery-previously the sole ground-to include also: i) desertion without cause for three years or more; 2) cruelty; 3) incurable insanity if under treatment for at least five years. In hopes of applying brakes to hasty British couples bent on too-swift marriage, the bill provides that a husband & wife must remain married for at least three years before either can sue for divorce, though the courts are empowered to waive this restriction "in cases of exceptional hardship suffered by the petitioner or exceptional depravity on the part of the respondent...
...committee to supervise his funeral, 15 Senators rose one after another to pay spontaneous tribute to Joe Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation, we bow in sorrow. A pillar of strength is gone, a soldier has fallen with face to the battle...
...liberalism, but four years later, fate having denied him the Vice Presidency, he became the loyal follower of Franklin Roosevelt. And Robinson who was more conservative than Smith became the defender of Roosevelt who was too liberal for Smith. In fact his loyalty to the President-often tried by swift Rooseveltian shifts of front that left him out on a limb-won Joe Robinson the pity and respect of the men who fought him hardest on the Senate floor. As a soldier he had the admiration of the entire Senate, even of those who thought he was a soldier worthy...
...Reno a wife may get rid of one husband and acquire another the same day, but industries seldom undergo such swift vicissitudes. For them the process of losing one meal ticket and acquiring another is generally a matter of years. Not so the U. S. shipping industry. Last week, after only 75 days of argument, it underwent the equivalent of a Reno divorce and remarriage, with a disconcerting reduction of alimony...
...delivered himself of a 1,500-word oration on Freedom of the Press, President Stahlman, whose wit is as nimble as his sarcasm, settled down in the speaker's chair to conduct the meeting with good-natured flippancy, cutting short the long-winded, moving things along at a swift pace. Only real business at hand was the wording of an anti-Guild resolution...