Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholarship at Balliol and from then on the whole of his 'varsity life was literally one honor after another. Small wonder that his contemporaries predicted great things for him. But, though he was successful at Oxford, his success at the bar, while not so swift, gave him the surest foundation for his political career. As a young barrister he reached the pinnacle of his fame in his able management of the great case between The Times and Parnell (1888-1890). A year later, he "took silk" (became a Queen's Counsellor, a sort of Elder Barrister...
...face, almost good looking, the broad-headed type of statesman, like Borah or Underwood, he is able, active, arduous - especially in mind. He might have had a place in Harding's cabinet, but Harding, the man of good heart, was perhaps a little repelled by Warren's swift-mindedness. The departure of Mr. Hughes breaks up the "Big Three" of the Cabinet- Hughes, Mellon, Hoover. If one of the newcomers is to take Hughes' place in the trio, it is likely to be Warren. He is not as Hoover, the man of method, of slow exactness...
...This framework displays no sensational originality. It is shrewdly made to carry the star's efforts, always feeding them and taking little for itself. The company is large and generally competent. Yet, it is upon the magnificent vitality, the bright and sometimes bawdy wit, the shift to a swift flash of pathos, the surpassing magnetism of Mr. Jolson that the show depends...
Again the roll-call of America's colleges is marshalled to summary in a supplement published with this issue. Again the story told is one of swift and stirring advance. Eighty-three of the Nation's 600 colleges and universities now have 245, 248 students enrolled for full-time work. This is an increase of 15.299 since the academic year of 1923-24. The rate of growth--nearly 6 1-2 per cent--is faster, proportionately, than the growth of the whole population of the United States. Think what that means! Fifteen thousand students are enough in themselves to make...
...appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust is but one among many appetites?for seething, hot colors; for the glare of white sun-light on torrid sand; for violent animal action; for full-throated screaming; for rich wine, amorous deviltries; and a swift, red death rather than a gray...