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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union, leagued in a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their human aspect!" A clerk at Judge Ulrich's elbow read rapidly an indictment of the accused so complex that his swift sentences left spectators blurred as to details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the Communist Party and as such Dictator of Russia. It was announced that the prisoners had all chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Perfect Dictator | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...introduce modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cubism to Cynicism | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...baritone singing When Did You Leave Heaven; Menjou in a hospital nightshirt. " Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures: Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...imagination is as great as moral indignation, he is likely to produce a fantasy. In an environment of pure invention, heroes are twice as heroic. villains twice as villainous and life's follies doubly absurd. Toward the petard of such celebrated masters of adult make-believe as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Butler. Thomas Stanley Matthews has hoisted himself with a nightmare called The Moon's No Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indirect Nightmare | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Next door to Greece is Bulgaria. Last week its Little Tsar Boris, also troubled by Reds, was on a swift trip to consult Mussolini in Rome, then Hitler in Berlin. Nebulously an international European Fascist solidarity seemed forming to counter-balance the Communist International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Aim: Discipline | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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