Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seemingly this two-to-one swift kick at the vanishing posterior of ex-Premier Lerroux convinced President Alcala Zamora that the Cortes was incorrigibly radical, must be dissolved to give the Spanish people a chance to elect new Deputies. For months Conservatives have been urging this course, predicting a Conservative landslide. To hold the election the President needed a "strong" Premier. He spent the week trying to find one, called in successively a wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth...
...some Greek follower of St. Paul. Whole books omitted in The Short Bible are Chronicles. Song of Solomon (because non-religious). Lamentations, Obadiah, Malachi. II Peter. II and III John, Jude. Other books are severely edited. Professor Goodspeed found Isaiah hardest to blue-pencil because of its dignity and swift, smooth literary flow. Every book in The Short Bible is prefaced with brief, graphic notes by Professor Goodspeed...
...ammunition into the National, poured back a withering, effective fire. Soldiers who tried to rush the hotel were dropped in their tracks by sharpshooting officers, died writhing, groaning and gushing blood upon the grass. Fascinated by this sight was a U. S. meat-packing executive, Robert G. Lotspiech, Swift & Co.'s assistant sales manager in Havana. As he watched from the eleventh floor terrace of the nearby Lopez Serrano Apartments, a stray bullet drilled him through the heart...
...Turning to a coffeehouse, he was near to joining a sober looking man drinking a dish of chocolate, but a brawl suddenly broke out, and the sober looking man joined in to rescue a poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor...
...Lieutenant Evans known to every British schoolboy as the second-in-command of the famed Scott expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12. The South Pole did not end Lieutenant Evans' heroism. During the War he was in command of the Broke when that destroyer and the Swift fought off six German destroyers in 1917. Three times since the War he has been given medals for saving life at sea. He has been C.-in-C. of the Australian Navy and has written a number of healthy adventure stories for boys. What took this most gallant officer...