Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suburban Denver. Logs, tree-trunks, tons of debris were swept along as the billion-gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water, boiling over its embankments. At 7 o'clock it burst into Denver, ripped out six bridges in swift succession. Just ahead of it were police cars and fire engines, sirens a-scream, racing the residents to safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from the lowlands. In the yard back of his house, Tom Casey, So, fell into a hole, could not pull...
...agree that only Mrs. Trefusis had transformed herself with complete success into "Diamond Lil" (see cut}. ''Of course I have ideas, but I don't tell them" is Mrs. Trefusis' drawling way of expressing delight that her Mae West party galvanized Paris stylists into swift, devastating action. After the openings last week alert buyers, repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there...
...tension by declaring with a smile, "Let us not blame anybody. Let us say that circumstances beyond our control wrecked things." Mr. Chamberlain then warned that Great Britain, until last year a so-called "free trade" country, is still in the stage of "constructing tariff walls," ready to take swift reprisal against states which raise theirs higher against British goods...
...they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others long 9,000,000 bushels of corn engineered a "corner" in violation...
...Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Ill., Mrs. Edward Foster Swift, relict of the meat packer, gave a Swift family golf tournament, for married members only. Husbands & wives played together. Play was over nine holes; each pair was allowed a handicap, combined net score only to count. Couples paid $10 to play, $20 not to play. Among the entries were the Theodore Philip Swifts, the Edward Swift Juniors, the Charles Henry Swifts. The George Swifts, the Charles Henry Swifts did not play, paid their $20 fines. Prizes were $30 in cash, a silver...