Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...
...boss a small property he had just inherited, and because he had changed his vacation to go take a look at the land. Then he found somebody else, using his own name, had arrived before him. Then he saw Her. After that he was carried along on a sudden swirl of adventure that might have swept away a less sturdy hero, that should carry you with it willy-nilly...
...bespectacled young diplomat by the name of Samuel Walter Washington from West Virginia watched with concern the Brazilian revolution swirl about his head...
...inevitable in current Soviet films as the trademark of any commercial product, and of about the same artistic importance. Still, in spite of its faults, in spite of a photography sometimes just right and sometimes so overvividly alive that the images cluster into meaningless visual hurricanes or swirl away on independent sprees, Cain and Artem is not far behind the great Amkino products of the past. Best shot: the tug of war between two local strongmen, who, each tied to one end of a rope, stand on opposite houseroofs and try to pull each other...
...ground for Boston debutante racketeers, an article appearing in the current number of The North American Review has a definite bearing on some phases of undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony of drink upon drink. The debutante, overshadowed...