Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black market were signs of the times. They were also OPA's Achilles' heel. What was the use of price control when there were no goods under the price tags? The U.S. consumer craved a thousand things, but the race for scarce items went to the swift and knowing-not always the same as the honest or the deserving-citizen...
...knew who he was. He might be the Polish D.P. who was mysteriously missing from Frankfurt and who, police said, had done this sort of thing before. He might be a Nazi victim, a believer in swift and personal justice. One day last week, he struck at Stalag 13, near Nürnberg. A prisoner was suddenly racked by violent pains; during the next two days, over 2,000 others writhed in the same unexplained illness...
...strange and wonderful part of the nickel's worth that readers of the New York World-Telegram get each day is a garrulous nature column on the editorial page called "News outside the Door." Its 75-year-old author, J. Otis Swift, who has been writing it 24 years, is convinced that he accounts for 100,000 of the Telly's 387,087 readers. Last week, at Manhattan's Cornish Arms Hotel, white-shocked, sprightly J. Otis Swift was guest of honor at the 23rd Annual Ball and Reunion of the Yosian Brotherhood of Nature Philosophers...
...Swift founded the Yosians (rhymes with O'Ryans) as a walking club in 1922. The name is an adaptation of his own. Josiah, which means "Jehovah supports." A pantheist by belief, and an Episcopalian to please his wife, he sees mother nature as "Jehovah in His maternal capacity" healing her children. The first Yosians were readers who wrote in to ask if they might tag along when he took hikes" to hunt material for his column. The dozen nervous nature lovers who first showed up grew into a traipsing mob of 500. The unwieldy crowds have long since been...
...Swift has cut his ten and 20-mile hikes to strolls of three miles, to match his age. He walks backwards, up & down hill, warned by his solicitous brethren as he approaches obstacles, and keeping up an endless commentary on plants, rocks, insects, animals, and human nature...