Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comprising most of the book, is an intense, imaginative version of Swift's tormented love life with Stella and Vanessa...
...other concerns a poor girl who marries the German who killed her lover in the World War. During Swift's madness the two lovers appear as his servants. Few readers will be able to follow Author Sitwell's symbolical connection between the modern world and the egomania that drove Swift to destroy the lives of Stella and Vanessa because he would neither live with them nor leave them alone...
...modern world Swift's egomania is translated into "two nations, the rich and the poor, walking to their death in opposed hordes, [bound together by] a cannibalistic greed, hatred, and fear...
...pickaback plane, or "Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft," consists of two seaplanes-a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat. The top plane, named Mercury, has a 73-ft. wing span, weighs 20,000 lb. loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span...
...editorial, calling for a "swift kick to knock the dust out of Dartmouth's baggy green pants," described most Dartmouth men as having an entirely wrong conception of the purposes of a college education. This "infantilism" or "googooism" is the result of a faculty which "lives in a vacuum and grinds out lectures like so many rusty phonographs...