Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm. The finishing touches were being applied to his style ? a short left hook which many called vicious; the dempseyesque "weaving" which looks so well in the ring and keeps the other man guessing. Chiefly it is in the Schmeling right that the Schmeling might resides. It is swift, potent, and from it came all the early German knock outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German. He likes it to be known that whenever he returns...
...their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty minutes, and all these little problems deal with trivialities, such as Swift's verse, or Charles Kingsley as a poet and novelist...
...Healy, for instance, an engaging, bald-headed young man, is assisted in his swift antics by a trio of abject, greasy nondescripts whose entrance prompts Mr. Healy to remark: "The pool rooms are empty." This group becomes embroiled with a wrestling bear which seems more human than any of them except Mr. Healy. Later the wrestlers try a fearsome barber-shop ballad to the accompaniment of Mr. Healy's orchestra. These scenes are blunt, vulgar, hilarious. A plump-cheeked brunette, Betsy Rees, might well be given more time...
...long-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics came a swift and sudden rebuke last week from Dictator Josef Vissarionovich ("Steel") Stalin...
Observers of the swift-winged Hutchins rise, wondered who was behind this last, most notable flight. Undoubtedly President Angell fostered it. But who in Chicago? Because he is determinedly the University's "mystery man," it could not be told definitely how much Harold Higgins Swift, potent packer, had done or said. Many are the donations of money and ideas that come from the office in Chicago's stockyards where Mr. Swift functions as vice president of Swift & Co. and a director of Libby, McNeill & Libby. But he keeps most of his enthusiasm and efforts for the University anonymous...