Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lest it seem that he was exploiting his official home for campaign purposes. Sound-track was made in only a few scenes, used in none, and wise Press Secretary Steve Early warned his chief against lip readers in the audience. Against the White House background are portrayed in swift review the main events of the Roosevelt administration, down to and through this year's Election...
...himself had seen and approved it, was "gravely misleading." Although the high points of the previous Journal-the accounts of Johnson reproving Boswell for drunkenness, the celebrated orders to Mrs. MacLeod not to leave her family home, the great arguments on Ossian, on Burke, on Hume, Garrick, Goldsmith and Swift-remain the high points of the present edition, the new book is more intimate, less stilted, abounds in picturesque details of travelers' discomforts in the islands off Scotland in 1773. The Journal begins with its superb description of the Rambler at the age of 64: "His person was large...
...Swift last week also saw the finishing touches being applied to a meat matter which had caused the firm considerably more cogitation than the Arnold deal. Offered for sale by underwriters, headed by Boston's Jackson & Curtis, was $10,000,000 worth of bonds and stocks in United Stockyards Corp., a new corporate entity which last September purchased Swift's large interests in one Canadian, seven U. S. stockyards. In 1920, to avoid Government prosecution under anti-trust laws, Swift and the other big packers signed "consent decrees" pledging themselves to get rid of stockyard holdings. Wilson...
...Swift will get $7,324,470, Swift stock-holders $1,567,000 for their holdings in yards which do 20% of U. S. stockyard business. Mainsprings of new United Stockyards Corp. are Banker John DeWitt and longtime Swift Executive Wesley K. Wright. Mr. Wright will soon move from Swift's plant on the South Side, from which he has managed Swift stockyards for the past 14 years, to Chicago's Board of Trade Building as president of United...
Among contemporary U. S. novelists, William Faulkner has the distinction of being one of the most powerful, certainly the least predictable, usually the hardest to read. Although he is the master of a swift and straightforward narrative prose that he has demonstrated in Sanctuary and other works, the plots of his stories are usually deliberately obscured until they resemble cyphers requiring careful study before they can be understood. Apparently only interested in such readers as are willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping...