Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ARMS AND THE MAN - Bernard Shaw's swift and diverting satire on war as it was once regarded...
...alarmingly shabby individual rushed from the Chambre des Députés, and sought the Quai d'Orsay (Foreign Office) nearby with swift nervous strides. As its portals flashed open before him, he tossed his battered felt hat to a flunkey and bellowed questions and commands in a rich throaty voice. Almost before the Foreign Office secretaries could answer or obey, he had seized his hat again, jammed it down over his thick mane of hair and rushed back to le Chambre. The individual who thus hectically disported himself throughout the week, was, of course, M. Aristide Briand...
...life has been brought to being for the first time in the U. S. by the Provincetown Playhouse. As indicated by the title the action follows the wild imaginings of one whose mind is unlocked in sleep. Wealth and pleasure, disease and religion are all surveyed in a swift succession of dismal pictures ending in something like death. Christ walking upon the waters is one of the incidents. Though not badly acted by Mary Fowler and Stanley Howlett, the production is pretty generally heavy going...
...Renoult (Justice)?were about to resign from the Cabinet, thereby discrediting the Briand Government and paving the way for a purely Cartel Ministry. For the benefit of everyone within hearing the Briand throat was cleared. His luxuriant tufted jungle of hair seemed to dilate as he cast a swift piercing glance about...
...will be floated by Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Subscribers to the $6,000,000, headed by Mr. Strong, include Reuben H. Donnelley, J. V. Farwell II, Thomas D. Jones, Frank O. Lowden, Joseph E. Otis, James A. Patten, George F. Porter, Julius Rosenwald, Harold Swift, Lucius Teter. Mr. Strong, long active in the business, now controls. So highly is he regarded that when a Chicagoan heard casually at a dinner party that Mr. Strong might not get the paper, he said: "I'll put in half a million to see Strong...