Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...censure was snowed under by 214 Kemalist votes, but on thinking the whole matter over Dictator Kemal must have wondered whether the idea of even a ten-deputy opposition was such a good one after all. In Turkey the will of the dictator is communicated by means wondrous, swift and silent. Those who cross it are sometimes found hanged to their own doorposts at dawn. Bright and early on the morn after the vote, Leader Fethi called upon "The Modernizer," informed him that overnight the opposition party had dissolved...
...hard to determine just how the Blue would stack up, since most of the other backs, with the possible exception of Crowley, would rank no higher individually than any that Harvard can offer. But with Booth playing the whole game, as he did Saturday, the Yale attack is swift and powerful, moving behind a better than average line. Booth has inherent football sense combined with a running ability rarely seen on any gridiron. It is practically impossible for one tackler to bring him down, and it is not until he has been boxed in successfully by several men that...
...most serviceable of first-night choices. The cast was headed by Soprano Maria Miiller who was pretty, capable, unexciting; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli who sang loudly. The best performance was by Conductor Tullio Serafin who treated the great tunes tenderly, kept the whole moving at a swift and theatric pace...
Couriers. As dawn broke over the airport at Victoria, B. C. one day last week two swift Army pursuit planes roared into the air, flew eastward on an impressive mission. The leader, Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team (TIME, May 5), carried a despatch case containing Japanese Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the London Naval Treaty. The document had been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order...
...Carl Van Doren, 45, one-time literary editor of the Nation, long-time lecturer on English and U. S. literature at Columbia, is head editor of the Literary Guild, husband to able Literary Editrix Irita Van Doren of the New York Herald Tribune. Author Van Doren has always liked Swift, has been trying for years to find time to do a book about him. Other books: The Life of Thomas Love Peacock, The American Novel, The Roving Critic, Many Minds, James Branch Cabell...