Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makin's) lived & died (1844-1916) without enjoying or soliciting artistic honors. In last week's show he was commemorated in 88 of his works, chiefly oils plus four of the little wax figures he made to help him with his sculptural paintings, and a few of the charming, swift sketches he always made in oil, even for his watercolors. One of these paintings, Salutat, represented his famed boxing series, which he painted before gentlemen were supposed to profess an interest in pugilism. Another, The Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake, represented his equally famed rowing series. The Artist...
Paratroops, grotesque and awkward in their equipment, climbed into the C-47 transport planes. In swift succession the aircraft took off and crawled up toward the cloudy sky. With formation lights on because of the dense traffic, a parade of transports, gliders, tow planes, which in single file would have stretched more than 200 miles, droned across the English Channel...
When the decrepit old highway petered out, the party left its de luxe Dodge busses, mounted little horses and rode to a promontory above the mighty Yellow River, sunk in its age-old canyon. They crossed the swift waters on the rope planks of a swaying, weathered suspension bridge, climbed the winding trail beyond to Kenanpo in Shansi, perched like a feudal castle on a cave-pocked cliff...
Simpson, who is tickled at the swift success of The American Woman's Jury, has an answer for the verdicts that agitate him. Says he: "That's the damnation of women. Security is all they're after. As long as they have it, that's all they want...
...There is curly-haired, German-Jewish Nelson Morris, who got his start by investing his savings in pigs whose legs had been broken in transit and who is supposed to have the best cattle-buyer's eye in history. This is hotly disputed by admirers of Gustavus Franklin Swift, who is also prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would...