Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd with the aid of some of the 450 special police. Out of the car got a Roman Catholic priest. He was soon lost until someone screeched "Here's Father Coughlin" and catapulted Detroit's famed radio demagog through a door. Old Uncle Henry followed in the swirl but onetime Senator Robert Owen, tall and feeble, became terrified. "Please get me out of this" cried...
...realism of mood and swirl of action The First World War cannot be compared in scope or variety with the great ten-volume Photographic History of the Civil War issued in 1911 by Review of Reviews Co. That work still stands as an unchallenged monument to War Photographer Matthew Brady and his aides who also recorded the four-year struggle on some 7,000 wet plates that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into...
Devotees who have visited the warm musty sanctum on Baker Street, who have seen thin, ascetic fingers cure Quietly around an hypodermic who hart watched a spare figure draped unhand somely in tweed and mufflers despots in the swirl of a London fog, in short all who know Hoimes as Doyle conceived him, will turn from this latest atrocity with grim sentiments...
Reporters leaped for their hats, photographers jumped for their cameras, Artist Zdzislaw Czermanski was routed from his hotel room. A fleet of honking taxis bore down on 57th Street. Reporters reached the galleries just as the grey-haired Polish politico-pianist departed in a pale blue swirl of burnt gasoline. The perspiring assemblage was left to admire the pictures...
...bank, 15%, and two of 10% from the others. "I am through with banking and from now on I will confine my efforts to manufacturing," said Clement O. Miniger, robust but lately pale president of Electric Auto-Lite Co. A hard-working businessman, Mr. Miniger was caught in the swirl of real estate and banking developments by the boom, found himself a round $5,000,000 poorer when Toledo was forced to take stock of itself. Now, to recoup losses, he is working harder than ever. Automobile accessory business curtailed. Auto-Lite is making $1 electric clocks, selling them...