Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Fascist Party and burning with no fanatical flame, Professor Guarneri, who reports three times a week to II Duce, closed with the calm estimate that even assuming successful military operations, which every Italian hopes will be swift and glorious, the development of Ethiopia would in any case require "fifty years of sacrifice before reaping the commensurate reward." Perfectly aware of this, Dictator Mussolini last week loosed the frenzy required to build empires, with sirens, church bells, battle planes thundering over every Italian city of importance and a nationwide hookup of loudspeakers in public squares which enabled...
...perils and joys of playwrighting; on travel, success and the frightful ordeal of being hissed after a complete and overwhelming flop. Although it traces the main outlines of his career, the chief distinction of If Memory Serves is its abundance of good stories, some sentimental, some hilarious, but each swift, effective, written with a neat black-out ending...
...through history it is proved time and again that the thoughts of great men are influenced by their physical condition. Although Pope and Swift wrote anti-social satires primarily because they were subnormal or diseased, Sophocles played baseball and wrote some of the world's greatest tragedies. Aeschylus, Poe and Coleridge are only a few of those who underwent rigorous military training, thus it secus as though a sound mind and a sound body must go together to produce great works. Their failures began when Coleridge took to narcotics, when Stephen Foster took to drink, or when Marc Antony took...
...Three sons of famed fathers-George Howard Earle IV, Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., Gustavus Franklin Swift Jr.- and some 1,000 other Harvard freshmen heard President James Bryant Conant advise: "Even during your college career you will find groups of propagandists outside the University ready to use you for their own purposes; you will find them to right and to left. . . , There are plenty of people who are willing and anxious to shout, to march, and to wave flags and banners. I do not feel that this type needs reinforcement from the student body...
...thing, the stage of the Opera House has been cleverly mechanized so that none of the trick effects had to be deleted. The scene changes are as swift as ever, and in the brilliant ball room scene in the second act a full orchestra playing the Blue Danube Sweeps out to the footlights like a musical glacier and then recedes to make room for a galaxy of lovely ladies and their partners...