Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meat Pact. The so-called "Argentine meat war" between the principal importing firms in England ended last week with a gentleman's agreement between Swift & Co., Armour & Co.; and the English firm of Vestey Brothers. To each concern was apportioned an agreed percentage of the business to be done. At present the only firms of consequence who are outside this agreement are the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co. and its satellites. Britons, who dislike Argentine meat anyway, were not cheered by the prospect of having to pay more for it now that the price war is over...
...Significance of this swift fantasy may be partly understood from the fact that it quickly sold into 58 editions last summer abroad. Only one side of a tremendous issue is represented, and that in light journalistic burlesque. As literature the book is only the skeleton for a monster social satire with a few lines of horseplay, suggestions for ironic masterstrokes, sketched in. As the Finance Minister is explaining his aspect of the law, his tongue gets caught in his false teeth. When the law is passed, Christian deputies rush, to make market speculations through their brokers, named Cohn, Kuhn, Kohen...
English 7--English Literature from 1700 to the Death of Swift, announced as a full course, will not be given in the second half-year, but will count as a half-course for the first half-year. Professor Hurlbut...
...death of political satire presents an occasion for truly national mourning. The decease is not recent; one hardly knows when to record the unhappy end of the art of Dean Swift. That it is dead, however, and that it has left the political arena in this country a sterile waste land compared to what it was in its prime, is hardly to be denied...
Twelfth Night. An ingeniously designed set of scenery permits a swift running-together of scenes in Eva Le Gallienne's production, thus adding greatly to the buoyancy of the presentation. In other people's productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy...