Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magazine of Verse for the best poem about the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. Poems for an occasion are many-and mostly bad. But " America Remembers," included as tailpiece to this second volume of Engle verse, is the strongest and most maturely poetic achievement in the book, a swift, glamorous and compact running commentary on 300 years of American legend. Weaving back & forth, up & down over the vistas of local mythology, it strikes a genuinely inspirational note. The first poem, ''The Last Whiskey Cup, " strikes the same note. Excerpt...
Prime reason for its swift extinction was that it lacked the vital organs necessary to make a general strike succeed. It did not shut off the city's light, water, or food supplies. It did not silence the newspapers, throwing the city into a state of rumor-ridden ignorance about what was going on. If Labor had dared to go to these extremes, it would have had a frantic San Francisco by the throat. As it was, instead of paralyzing, the strike only pinched, inviting citizens and Government to rise and stamp out their tormentor...
Holabird & Root buildings reflect the quick brilliance of Root, the patient logic of Holabird. All Chicago knows their towering railroad-straddling Daily News Building, their Palmolive Building topped by the Lindbergh beacon, their Board of Trade Building which spans La Salle Street, their swift, swirling Chrysler Building on the Fair Grounds...
...punctuate the Madison Square Garden grinds. As a rule the riders bowl along in a good-humored cluster, sprint near the end of the run for the daily prize money. On the windy seacoasts they take turns riding on the windward side of the pack. One race was so swift and grim that after the finish a rider was reported to have bought a train ticket over the route so that he could inspect the scenery...
Cultural high at the World's Fair last summer was the $75,000,000 art exhibition. This year music is making a top-notch showing. This week Swift & Co. presented the Chicago Symphony in the first of a ten-week series of two-a-day free concerts on a shell built over the Lagoon. Also playing at the Fair is the Detroit Symphony, since mid-June an "exhibit" of Henry Ford. Another Ford musical exhibit was a 22-minute cinema for which a symphony orchestra played a special score composed by Edwin E. Ludig, musical director of Audio Productions...