Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fletcher Harper Swift, professor of education at the University of California: "There is a breadline in Chicago and a breadline in Boston which grows longer and longer and will continue to grow unless we can keep the people contented on the farms...
Clarence Dillon, Wall Street banker who flings a swift & broad flail in his financial harvestings,* struck twice against litigation, according to two complaints lodged last week in Manhattan against him. One was that he had created an asbestos trust, the other that he had not given a _go-be-tween sufficient commission in an oil deal...
Though nothing may become the college life of a Senior like the leaving of it, it is still clear that the competition for Commencement speaking parts affords others than Phi Beta Kappa men opportunity for a last gesture. Many traditions that have no justification, even as adornment, in the swift life of a busy university may sink to a deserved death in the Lethe stream, but that one of the fine appurtenances of the student's farewell to his college should fall into innocuous desuetude is a condition to be deplored, and remedied...
...thousand miles away, on Rodriguez Island near Madagascar, its sound roared four hours after the happening. In South America, 10,000 miles away, the tide was raised. Waves around the East Indies archipelago were 100 ft. high and went 400 miles an hour. Volcanic dust blew 20 miles high; swift upper winds carried the dust around the earth in 20 days. Sunlight was murky; sunsets were apocalyptic...
...adventurous and inquisitive Provincetown Playhouse tucked darkly away in downtown Manhattan has made another rabid experiment. One Michael Swift, distressed at many phases of U. S. life, particularly at the craze for gold, has collected his complaints in a play. He sets it in the California gold rush days and much of it occurs in a boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with this world...