Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...beach of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams' Cohasset, Mass. estate, Coast Guardsmen last week surprised rum-runners landing 600 cases of liquor worth $150,000. Some of the smugglers escaped into the surrounding marshes, some made out to sea in a swift, silent electric launch...
...Marius. One reason for the acclaim which the play received in Paris was the Provençal dialect of most of its actors. This effect, of course, is completely lacking in the U. S. production, somewhat limiting the power of the original play which was largely a collection of swift, thoroughgoing character sketches. The action takes place in a waterfront saloon, the son (Alexander Kirkland) of whose ponderous proprietor (Dudley Digges) is sea-struck. He must choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana), both families being longtime friends. Throughout this tale of youthful...
...halls for a living. The stenographer is played by Hortense Alden (Lysistrata), an ingratiating person with an attractive, chirrupy voice. Eugenie Leontovich, a beautiful lady who came to the U. S. from Russia to dance, turns in an extraordinary piece of acting as the danseuse, making instantly credible a swift series of emotions and setting a new high for plausible stage love scenes. All of these people should be made by this show...
...three swift jerks which jumped copper from 9½? to 10? to 11? to 12? came as welcome news to a market weary of bearish developments. This move was of course technically independent of last week's Manhattan meeting, but undoubtedly the coppermen talked informally of price. With tremendous stocks of copper on hand and little prospect of an immediate reduction in them, the new price has yet to meet a real test. But apparently depression and copper chaos have deprived the copper tycoons of none of their willingness to take big chances for big stakes...
...also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...