Word: swishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute, 60 minutes every hour, 40 hours every week...
...forbidding in themselves, and when they become supplemented and aggravated by more unnatural phenomena, the cries of the oppressed and righteously indignant should be heard. Cause enough may easily be found for these cries, for with a clatter of pails, a slop of a peculiarly unpleasant liquid, and the swish of many brushes, the avalanche of painters are upon...
...wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last Engineer Abbot Atwood Lane of Gulf Oil Corp. thought up a contraption combining the best features of automobiles, tractors and boats. Last week, along the Bayou Lafourche, gauping Cajuns watched Engineer Lane's "Marsh Buggy" trundle across quaking fens, swish through deep water, climb over bushes and hummocks...
...body from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra's brooding hatred by killing his mother, a pasty-faced harridan with a red wig over her grey hair. When the play ends the Furies are already making Orestes swish his sword at phantoms...
...sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan in such fashion as to swish Lord Plymouth, Signor Grandi left off to shout: "The Spanish Government's charges are fantastic and devoid of any foundation whatsoever! I refuse to transmit them to Rome." Chimed Prince von Bismarck, "I refuse to transmit them to Berlin!" At this exciting moment of Conference deadlock, correspondents concluded that...