Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Henry Ford is Mohammed. The rest of Europe is less sure, but painfully interested. What if God turn out to be the Machine? It was good last week, it was very comforting to Spaniards in old Madrid (for example) to learn that Henry and Clara Ford had broken their swift 1930 swing around Europe by pausing to see the Passion Play...
Murray, who was essaying a swift sketch, was approached by one of the library guards, who asked, "Are you on the CRIMSON?" Suspicious were aroused when the answer was in the negative. When Murray stated that he was on the Lampoon, he was hurried off with the admonition, "You can't do that in here...
Last week Son Phil proved that the La Follette name is still potent in Wisconsin. With much of his father's gesturing manner, shockheaded appearance, oratorical skill he, supported by his elder brother, Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette, swept the state in a swift-paced campaign. He attacked Governor Kohler for being an ally of President Hoover's, "a friend of monopoly." Against him the stalwarts cried: "Dynasty! Oligarchy! Too much La Follette !" Much was made of unemployment and the industrial depression. After the primary Kohler managers explained their defeat: "The burden of carrying Hoover...
High scorer for the University eleven was D. M. Frame '32, who scored the first three goals of the game. In the first quarter Frame did some neat dribbling through the second team defense, and shot a swift one past Faude, goalie, who last year was an All American member of the University team. A second score came when Frame headed the ball in from the side of the goal...
High in a Manhattan office building last week a tall, white-haired man proudly thumbed three dummy paperbacked books. Vivid covers proclaimed them Vol. I, No. 1 of Swift Story Magazine (It Fits Your Pocket), The Pocket Magazine and The Dime Novel. First of the three was ready for publication this week. But it was The Dime Novel, scheduled to appear next month, which brought a reflective smile to the white-haired man-William Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), author of the famed old time Frank Merriwell series, now venturing for the first time as his own publisher...