Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...health of his wife made it best for her to return to Australia, and in China her increasingly polished rough-diamond husband, as the years rolled on, perhaps killed more ladies (in the complimentary, Edwardian sense of "lady-killing") than any other man in China's swift, hard, cheap, international Shanghai-Peiping set. On being invited some years ago to a party in Peking for an appetizing blonde who had arrived bearing an introduction which she said was signed by the wealthiest U. S. newspaper publisher, Mr. Donald in his courtly way observed, "I must really decline...
Just before the 1929 stockmarket crash the Vans bought from the Armour and Swift packing interests certain terminal and belt line railroad properties in North Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo. The price was about $19,000,000. In the next few months the Vans bought control of Missouri Pacific...
When Mr. Hopkins got back to Washington he found the kickbacks had been swift and vigorous. In big centres of unemployment, notably Manhattan and Los Angeles, reliefers had instituted sit-down strikes. Some of the New Deal's strongest supporters were having fits. One of them, Publisher J. David Stern, editorialized in his New York Post...
...tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace and jazz tempo...
...King and Queen Traversed by Swift Nudes (Marcel Duchamp...