Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while church suppers, CCF dances, an occasional four-year-old movie broke the monotony. But the routine palled, and Simmians, their pockets bulging with grain checks, were in a spending mood. The bright lights of bustling Swift Current (pop. 6,000) beckoned. Simmians were ready for a spree...
Some town sports got an idea: charter a train for the 32-mile ride to Swift Current. Archie Simmie, station master and café keeper, asked the Moose Jaw C.P.R. office, got word back that for a flat round-trip fare of $2.05, a $200 guarantee, a train would run. By telephone the news was spread; the guarantee became a cinch...
...York could accommodate UNO. Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow Catholics...
...their "Gaelic and Spanish . . . capacity for swift, passionate love" came the daughter whom they christened Santa Fe. Sante Fe Cameron is the slice of pineapple in this fruity, old-fashioned cocktail mixed by Anya Seton (daughter of Wild-Life Popularizer Ernest Thompson Seton), whose last novel, Dragonwyck, was one of 1944's bestsellers...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...