Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come on at the wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna", the play within "The Show Shop", a swift and rapid failure. New York throws its arms wide and hails it as the success of the season. Which all goes to prove oh, not very much...
...crew set busily to work, preparing the cases for delivery over the ship's sides. Occasionally, a mate would gaze expectantly over the waters, looking for the swift little rum runner which would surely come. Hours passed. Then, suddenly, four small motor craft raced into sight, came up to the Pellegrini, but not alongside. They circled around and around-picket boats of the U. S. Coast Guard...
While the Elis have been victorious only twice in seven games, their apparently bad record, while favorable to the University, must not be regarded as pointing to a swift and certain Crimson victory today, for the Yale schedule has been much harder than that of the University team, for it included games with Annapolis, Maryland and Hobart. Yale scored twice on Syracuse, but was defeated 4 to 2, while the University in its contest with the New York team came out on the short end of a 3 to 1 score...
...many ways, this book is one of his best. By the method of psychological analysis, he reviews the past ten years, beginning with the War. In swift panorama, the spirit of a whole decade lives again, stained not with the anxious excitement of that time, but with a critical pessimism merited by post-War events : Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, scores of conferences, the Ruhr -- no sign of progress in the heart of mankind; but, the League of Nations, the World Court, codification of international law, etc. . . . ten years after, there is the beginning, at last, of a world opinion...
...have ever hated all nations, professions and communities . . . but principally I hate and detest that animal called man." So wrote the angry Irishman, Jonathan Swift. So has come to think that onetime cable of conservatism, Painter Sir William Orpen. His painting was the exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote...