Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into three dimensions. Creased by tiny grins, twisted by picayune emotions of fear, alarm and love, they squeal and whisper, wiggle, grimace and frown in terrifying parody that would doubtless have delighted Jonathan Swift. Whether the author of Gulliver's Travels would be equally pleased by the use Soviet cinemanufacturers have made of his masterpiece in other respects is more debatable...
Auburn is bringing out a Diesel-engine car. Errett Lobban Cord's company has not had a good year since 1931 when its smart, swift models caught public fancy and 31,000 cars were sold. The company lost $3,600,000 in 1934 and $862,000 in the first six months of 1935. Nine-month 1935 sales of 4,324 cars were only about 10% ahead of the corresponding 1934 period...
...comparison with most contemporary ''works of the imagination," even in comparison with Hemingway's own fiction Green Hills of Africa must be put down as a successful experiment. With its swift narrative and its human conflicts it is as carefully organized as a good novel. The clearly visualized African landscapes' lovely in their panoramas, dense and difficult in detail, the remarkable variety of the hunting episodes, above all Ernest Hemingway's passionate absorption in the sport, combine to give the book the freshness and immediacy of a vivid personal experience. Moreover, the "idiotic abundance...
...someone ordinary, commonplace, average, whom he can observe and follow for a sufficiently soul-filling time before he strikes the blow. Up to a certain point "King Coffin's" plans go well; he has lured his prey here and there; he has him at his absolute mercy. Then a swift change of events alters the whole aspect of the situation. Ammen begins to regain his sanity...
Today other second-rate Powers still remain what they were then. But in 13 swift years the once obscure Italian editor has carried his once negligible country up & up to the ultimate fulcrum on which Europe's future turns. This may be II Duce's unlucky 13th year, but with the hammer blows of 52 nations ringing out in an anvil chorus of sanctions last week, it was significant to the point of paradox that not Italy but Ethiopia was still being called "the underdog...