Word: swoops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleeper. By automobile it is more pleasant; the roads are excellent and through the Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week a boy of 14, Farnan Parker of Anderson, Ind., stepped into his plane and flew from his home...
...nation was born within the shadow of Harvard College which proclaimed to the world a new era of freedom--freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and press, freedom from petty governmental aggression. On the eve of the celebration of that event the bureaucracies of Boston and Cambridge swoop down upon the newsstands and with a grand gesture of patriotic and ethical zeal, carry off every available copy of the Lampoon, as if it were a carrier of pestilence and destruction. Nothing could be more ludicrous, more utterly absurd if it were not so crass and insolent a demonstration of petty...
That restless son of Harvard, Mr. E. E. Cummings, is travestied in a group of three poems which have fastened with a swoop and a whoop upon his startling technique. Mr. T. S. Eliot, too, appears here, under the thin disguise of T. S. Tellalot, and he, likewise, is turned upon the spit, crisply and with gusto...
...swoop of 1,000 women...
...thousand Newport women swooped down upon the House of Commons. Never had such a sight been seen in London since the days of the suffragettes. The swoop was made to greet Reginald Clarry, M.P. for Newport. They wanted to be shown around the House. The rules forbid any member receiving more than 50 guests at any one time, so Mr. Clarry had to depute 10 of his colleagues to look after 950 of the ladies. Finally, they departed in 30 charabancs. Reginald was reported to have withstood the ordeal "with remarkable fortitude...