Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with a sympa- thetic eye, is careful to point out that her liaisons often cooled to life-long friendships. Well he describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France, a visit from the extraordinary Queen...
...disc holding on its periphery 48 lenses. As the lenses revolve a photographic film moves back of the disc. Normal exposures are 3,200 a second, possible exposures 10,000 a second. (The ordinary cinema camera takes 16 views a second.) Utility: Resolving for leisurely observation the details of swift moving machinery, gun fire, water flow...
...people. Shutting the eyes also helps, since the sympathetic nervous system is also affected by optical unsteadiness. Drinking champagne is another remedy. But the best thing of all, for seasick prince, pauper or potentate, is to surrender completely and lie down. . . . Returning to Key West from Havana on the swift cruiser Memphis, President Coolidge lay down.* Secretary Wilbur filled an engagement the President had made to address the ship's officers and crew...
...continuous splash of water played over woodwork invincibly varnished with Valspar. The hiss of Fyre-Freez extinguishing apparatus attracted knots of the curious. Small motion picture advertising machines explained to all who stood and watched the swift capacities of the various craft in water. A Chrysler marine engine artfully sliced in various vitals, backed with mirrors, turned slowly to show all who cared to gaze the working mysteries of its interior...
...solution of which she has presented too insufficiently and inconclusively; in fact, she has given no solution at all. That is left to the reader. That the girl loved through sympathy and later regretted is not, however, left uncertain. Around this lies the theme of the story-a swift moving story; fine, truthful, engrossing...