Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past dozen years Swift & Co., largest U. S. meat packer, has bought up 20 small packing houses. Last week Swift bought out its 21st little competitor...
...undoubtedly most popular with millions of the British Lower Classes. Today there is probably not a person of this class who does not love King Edward, in the sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique who are the King's only real friends. Most of these people seem "American" to the circles in which Queen Mary and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin respectively move - and to these worthies "American" is a revolting adjective. The worst feature of an appalling situation in their eyes...
...course was more fortunate. Born with the sign of Sagittarius the archer, which governs "voyages and weapons and all swift things," in his horoscope, rising, he served throughout the War, won the Military Cross, had spent eight months overseas, including four months of the battle of the Somme, and 350 hours in the air, when he was transferred to the relatively safe job of trying out new machines. The story of his charmed life among the pterodactyls is an interesting, if uneven, book that sets a new mark in the reminiscences of War-time pilots...
...surprising how fresh the Herald Tribune sage's articles remain when they are issued, frozen inside book-covers. You turn the pages from the panic mood of January, 1933, when Mr. Lipmann joined his well-modulated call to the rest of those who demanded swift executive action; through the decisive March days, through the tumult round banks and public works and beer, through the birth of the blue eagle. Here is Mr. Lippman praising the emergency legislation in March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue...
Although Author Asbury devotes separate chapters to such old standbys for local colorists as the keelboatmen, voodoo, Lafitte the Pirate, riverboat gamblers, the Black Hand Society and the Mafia, most of his book is given over to the swift summaries of crimes of violence and to careful description of the histories, habits, earnings and untimely ends of the lost ladies who once crowded Basin Street and the district nearby. Typical of these case histories is that of Fanny Sweet, tall, homely, bespectacled girl who was thrown out of half-a-dozen of the toughest brothels in a tough city...