Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific terms the adventures of these two expeditions to Southeastern Asia in 1928-29 on behalf of the Field Museum of Chicago. With the Coolidge party starting from China and the Roosevelt group from the Tibetan border, the original plan was to meet on the Mekong River, but the swift rapids in the Mckong and a lack of time prevented this meeting until the end of the expedition. One tragic incident marred the otherwise complete success of the trip. This was the death of R. W. Hendee from malaria when he was on his way from the Coolidge party...
Heretofore Hollywood has used uncommonly good judgment in casting Clara Bow. She has had scenarios written for her which called for an alternation of negligee and evening clothes in swift succession, allowing Clara to display her own particular charms in her own inimitable manner; the situation has not been clouded with acting and plot and all that. However, in "Call Her Savage," now at the University, Hollywood has gypped the customers. Not that Clara doesn't get plenty of chances to display those well-known charms; she does, much. But there is so much unadulterated tripe...
Louis Franklin Swift, 71, eldest surviving son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, resigned his directorship in Swift 8 Co. Two years ago he was succeeded as president of the company by his brother Gustavus Franklin Swift...
What a mess this world is in! And with what delight Voltaire and Dean Swift would report its befuddlement! We are in such a state of jitters that our religious leaders are falling for Buchmanism, our industrial, financial and economic leaders solemnly discussing "Technocracy," and our political leaders quarreling about decimal points in beer...
...gongs as bright as gold-pieces and serpentine horns made the music for Shankar to dance to. It was delicate, highly refined music for the most part which, with its single thread of melody, might have sounded monotonous to Occidental ears but for the drummers tapping and slapping a swift, intricate counterpoint, and for Shankar...