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Word: swishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swish Metropolitan opened up (see above), Manhattan's common-man's opera ($3 top) shut down. Last week the New York City Opera Company went out on the road, and in Chicago got the kind of ermine-and-top-hat opening it never gets at home. It was the only opera Chicagoans would see all year. But if Chicago and the visiting opera company liked each other, they might form a partnership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Seven Veils in Chicago | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Chat. Here, for a few remarkable hours, the hunger of Berlin and the fears of the world seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish past the dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: INTERMEZZO | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Prague was a city of fear, despair, and the dreaded swish of the iron brooms that Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had put in the hands of his action committees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: I Never Thought | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Like the opponent it will meet, Holy Cross features coordinated teamwork rather than individualism. "Doggie" Julian's boys average just under 6,2. They have everything a good team should have--speed, aggressiveness, finesse, deception. They like the sound of swishing strings and, what is more important, they know how to make strings swish, quickly and easily. They will be hard to beat...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Crimson Meets Rugged Test Against Holy Cross Five in Garden Tonight | 12/10/1946 | See Source »

...Harlows, and witches, Salem-style perchance, swish about by broommobile. So 'tis meet that Macbeth's witches come down Cambridge way. Three eerie figures meet in the middle of the Harvard camp . . . egad again? Yard. Zounds! 'Tis Kopp, Margarita and Jacunski, magicians all, of the Crimson Clan, meet to devise a potent potion not to the liking of McLaughry...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: Whirling Bill Shakespeare Chants Spectral High Praise Of Conant's Clan With Tourney at Hanover in Mind | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

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