Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor's note attached to Mr. Davis letter must be banished to work for which he is better fitted. He has failed to recognize a master of the serio-jocose. The Crimson will certainly not retain in his present dangerous capacity a man who fails to recognize the new-Swift our Mr. Davis. Marion J. Levy...
Editorial Chairman; Richard N. Swift, of Farlow House and Bloomfield, New Jersey, Advisory Editor; Richard C. Sorlien, of Wigglesworth and Pelham Maner, New York...
...quickly. The Germans already bossed the Italian railways. "Suddenly, without warning, 122 major train services in Italy were suspended. In the eight weeks beginning at the joyous Christmas season those trains were devoted to the task of hauling German troops and German equipment into Italy. The conquest was swift and complete...
...public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic crushing power of the German war machine in action, recorded on a crudely-filmed, undeniably authentic reel, is no stuff for comedy. A firm impression of well-trained might sticks in the mind much longer than fantastic terrorism...
Critics smiled too at the Winesburg minister who was nightly tempted to climb into his steeple and play Peeping Tom on Schoolteacher Kate Swift. They did not know the sun-baked prairie where men, women and boys work all the hot dusty day in the fields and villages, and when released are pursued by strange longings which they chalk up in public places after dark. Critics smiled at the way Anderson's characters are forever springing through cornfields or dashing down the railroad tracks in the middle of the night. But Anderson understood that Americans are a people...