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  • For one thing, their definition of "Tom Swifty" is off.

    June 7th, 2007 2007

  • Humphrey Bogart gave Irving Paul Lazar, the literary agent, the nickname Swifty, which stuck for the rest of his life.

    Oscar Galas to Remember Dunne, Dominick 2005

  • Among them was Ed Robinson, who earned the nickname Swifty and who went from running at nearby Cardinal Hayes High School to coaching there for many years.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID GONZALEZ 2010

  • And I got a huge advance because I had a fabulous agent called Swifty Lazar (ph), who I'm sure you knew.

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006 2006

  • “There's a place down the street called Swifty's where they make a great roast beef club,” Morris said.

    KILLING COUSINS ALEX MINTER 2003

  • “There's a place down the street called Swifty's where they make a great roast beef club,” Morris said.

    KILLING COUSINS ALEX MINTER 2003

  • “There's a place down the street called Swifty's where they make a great roast beef club,” Morris said.

    KILLING COUSINS ALEX MINTER 2003

  • Then I bolts the door, goes and calls Swifty down off the top of the swingin 'rope, and we comes to a parade rest alongside the couch.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • "Ahr chee!" says Swifty, which is his way of bringin 'in a minority report.

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • Edmund Yeo (aka Swifty) is a Malaysian filmmaker, currently residing in Tokyo, Japan.

    Planet Malaysia 2010

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