Sweetwater River, river rising in the southern tip of Wind River Range, central Wyoming, U.S. It flows generally east for 175 miles (282 km) and empties into Pathfinder Reservoir on the North Platte River. The Oregon Trail followed the Sweetwater westward from the vicinity of Casper to South Pass.

Felix Frankfurter: In Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957), however, he upheld a claim of academic freedom by a socialist college professor subjected to a state investigation.

hopscotch: …the game is known as swehi. The diagram is drawn in sand, and a stone or a ball of crushed leaves is used as a marker. The rules resemble those in the German game of Hinkspiel. In swehi, if the player’s stone is tossed on a line, she is out…

keyboard instrument: Stop and key mechanisms: Such enclosures are called swell boxes. In pursuit of still greater expressivity, organists since the 16th century have often employed an accessory called a tremulant, which by repeatedly interrupting the flow of wind to the wind-chest creates a pulsation in the tone of the pipes.

keyboard instrument: Great Britain: …what Jordan described as the swelling organ, but it was not to reach its full development until 150 years later; no 18th-century organ music demands a swell box. There are hardly any surviving examples of British instruments of this period in original condition.

wave: Wind waves and swell: Wind waves are the wind-generated gravity waves. After the wind has abated or shifted or the waves have migrated away from the wind field, such waves continue to propagate as swell.

Swellendam, town, Western Cape province, South Africa. It is situated in the Breede River valley 120 miles (190 km) east of Cape Town. The town lies inland from the Indian Ocean at the base of the Langeberg mountains. Founded (1743) by the Dutch East India Company, it was named for the Cape

Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet, in South Africa, administrative districts of the Cape of Good Hope under the rule of the Dutch East India Company. Established in 1743 and 1786, respectively, they became centres of a frontier independence movement in the 1790s. With the continuous expansion of

puffer, any of about 90 species of fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, noted for their ability when disturbed to inflate themselves so greatly with air or water that they become globular in form. Puffers are found in warm and temperate regions around the world, primarily in the sea but also, in

wood: Shrinkage and swelling: Wood undergoes dimensional changes when its moisture fluctuates below the fibre saturation point. Loss of moisture results in shrinkage, and gain in swelling. It is characteristic that these dimensional changes are anisotropic—different in axial, radial, and tangential directions. Average values for shrinkage are roughly…

angioedema: …in which large, localized, painless swellings similar to hives appear under the skin. Angioedema may be acute or chronic, and the condition may be hereditary or acquired. The swelling is caused by massive accumulation of fluid (edema) following exposure to an allergen (a substance to which the person has been…

keyboard instrument: Great Britain: …what Jordan described as the swelling organ, but it was not to reach its full development until 150 years later; no 18th-century organ music demands a swell box. There are hardly any surviving examples of British instruments of this period in original condition.

The Miracle Worker: Cast:

May Swenson was an American poet whose work is noted for its engaging imagery, intricate wordplay, and eccentric use of typography. Her poetry has been compared to that of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, and George Herbert. Swenson was educated at Utah State University (B.A.,

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race: …the race’s greatest mushers are Rick Swenson, Susan Butcher, Doug Swingley, and Dallas Seavey.

Madonna: Film career and projects of the 21st century: …Thing (2000) and in Ritchie’s Swept Away (2002)—Madonna pursued work behind the camera in the 21st century. She cowrote and directed Filth and Wisdom (2008), a comedy about a trio of mismatched flatmates in London, as well as the drama W.E. (2011), which juxtaposed the historical romance between Wallis Simpson…

Lina Wertmüller: …destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (1974; Swept Away), a witty comedy in which a poor sailor establishes his dominance over a haughty rich woman while they are marooned on a deserted island, and Pasqualino settebellezze (1975; Seven Beauties), a film about an Italian dandy who must betray all moral values while…

airplane: Wing types: Swept wings are angled, usually to the rear and often at an angle of about 35°. Forward swept wings also are used on some research craft.

Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen were brothers and railroad executives who from 1916 purchased and reorganized several major U.S. railways. They were also real estate speculators who from 1905 developed Shaker Heights, a prosperous suburb of Cleveland, on land previously held by a Shaker

organosulfur compound: Reactions: …oxidant in a process termed Swern oxidation. Notable rearrangements of the sulfone group include the Ramberg-Bäcklund reaction and the Truce-Smiles rearrangement.

Gentianaceae: Major genera and species: Swertia, an herb with blue star-shaped flowers, and Exacum, a tropical indoor ornamental, are other attractive members of the family.

Stephen Greenblatt: …suggestions about atomic structure, in The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011). The latter work received particular acclaim and won both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve (2017) focuses on the biblical origin story. In 2018 Greenblatt published Tyrant:…

John Swett was an American educator known as the father of the California public school system. Swett was educated at the Pittsfield and Pembroke academies and at the Merrimack Normal Institute. He had become a teacher at the age of 17, but he left New England in 1852, spending most of the next

Sir Frank Swettenham was a British colonial official in Malaya who was highly influential in shaping British policy and the structure of British administration in the Malay Peninsula. In 1871 Swettenham was sent to Singapore as a cadet in the civil service of the Straits Settlements (Singapore,

Sweyn I was the king of Denmark (c. 987–1014), a leading Viking warrior and the father of Canute I the Great, king of Denmark and England. Sweyn formed an imposing Danish North Sea empire, establishing control in Norway in 1000 and conquering England in 1013, shortly before his death. The son of

Sweyn I was the king of Denmark (c. 987–1014), a leading Viking warrior and the father of Canute I the Great, king of Denmark and England. Sweyn formed an imposing Danish North Sea empire, establishing control in Norway in 1000 and conquering England in 1013, shortly before his death. The son of

Sweyn II Estridsen was the king of Denmark (1047–74) who ended a short period of Norwegian domination (1042–47). The son of Ulf, a Danish earl, and Estrid, a sister of Canute I the Great, Sweyn fled to Sweden after his father was murdered in 1027 on orders of Canute. After the death of Canute

history of publishing: Italy: Two German printers, Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz, who had settled there, soon moved to Rome (1467), where the church encouraged the production of inexpensive books. In Italy as in Germany, however, it was the great commercial towns that became centres of printing and publishing. By 1500, Venice…

Vistula River: Physiography: …open sea was excavated near Świbno to facilitate floodwater runoff and the removal of debris and ice carried by the river; later, all lateral watercourses were separated by locks, rendering them navigable, with controlled flows; the Świbno cut was extended into the open sea by lengthening the controlling embankments. This…

Coop Himmelblau: …13, 1942, Vienna, Austria) and Helmut Swiczinsky (b. January 13, 1944, Poznań, Poland).

slash-and-burn agriculture, method of cultivation in which forests are burned and cleared for planting. Slash-and-burn agriculture is often used by tropical-forest root-crop farmers in various parts of the world, for animal grazing in South and Central America, and by dry-rice cultivators in the

Świdnica, city, Dolnośląskie województwo (province), southwestern Poland, on the Bystrzyca River, a tributary of the Oder River. Located in the Sudeten (Sudety) foothills, the city is an economic centre for the Lower Silesia agricultural area. It has metal, chemical, wood, sugar, and textile

Maria Theresa: Domestic reforms: …that her physician, the Dutchman Gerhard van Swieten, carried through at the universities (such as the introduction of textbooks, the linking of the medical school of the University of Vienna with the embryonic public health service, and the sovereign’s right to veto the election of deans by the faculties) even…

Meliaceae: >Swietenia, Entandrophragma, and Cedrela (especially the Spanish cedar, C. odorata) are economically important timber trees and are valued as a source of mahogany wood. The neem tree, also called the margosa tree (Azadirachta indica), is grown throughout the

conservation: Logging and collecting: …particularly valuable trees such as mahogany may be selectively logged from an area, eliminating both the tree species and all the animals that depend on it. Another example is the coast sandalwood (Santalum ellipticum), a tree endemic to the Hawaiian Islands that was almost completely eliminated from its habitats for…

Jerzy Andrzejewski: …Jerzy Zagórski, a satirical drama, Swięto Winkelrida (1946; “Winkelried’s Feast”). Contemporary political problems are projected in Popiół i diament (1948; Ashes and Diamonds), translated into 27 languages and generally considered his finest novel. It presents a dramatic conflict between young Polish patriots and the communist regime during the last days…

Świętochłowice, city, Śląskie województwo (province), south-central Poland; it is a northwestern suburb of the city of Katowice in the heavily industrialized Upper Silesia coalfields. The local economy is based on coal mining and the iron and steelmaking industry. Pop. (2011)

Polish literature: Positivism: …writers of the Warsaw school, Aleksander Świętochowski voiced anticlerical and antiaristocratic views in his weekly Prawda (“Truth”). Bolesław Prus (Aleksander Głowacki), a journalist, ranked high among Polish novelists with works such as Lalka (1890; The Doll), which was a complex picture of bourgeois life in Warsaw, and Faraon (1897; The…

Świętokrzyskie, województwo (province), southern Poland. It is bordered by 6 of the 16 provinces: Mazowieckie to the north, Lubelskie to the east, Podkarpackie to the southeast, Małopolskie to the south, Śląskie to the southwest, and Łódzkie to the northwest. Created in 1999 to replace the former

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, mountain range, part of the Little Poland Uplands, in south-central Poland, surrounding the city of Kielce. The highest peaks are Łysica (2,008 feet [612 m]) and Łysa Mountain (1,946 feet [593 m]), both in the Łysogóry range. The Świętokrzyskie Mountains take their name,

Czetwertyński family, Polish princely family descended from the Kievan grand prince Svyatopolk II Izyaslavich (d. 1113) of the house of Rurik. Among its prominent members was Antoni Czetwertyński (1748–94), the castellan of Przemyśl and last leader of the pro-Russian Confederation of Targowica that

swift, (family Hepialidae), any of approximately 500 species of insects in the order Lepidoptera that are some of the largest moths, with wingspans of more than 22.5 cm (9 inches). Most European and North American species are brown or gray with silver spots on the wings, whereas the African, New

Swift, U.S. satellite observatory designed to swing into the proper orientation to catch the first few seconds of gamma-ray bursts. It was launched on November 20, 2004. Swift has a gamma-ray telescope that makes the first detection of a gamma-ray burst. The spacecraft is moved so that the

swift, any of about 75 species of agile, fast-flying birds of the family Apodidae (sometimes Micropodidae), in the order Apodiformes, which also includes the hummingbirds. The family is divided into the subfamilies Apodinae, or soft-tailed swifts, and Chaeturinae, or spine-tailed swifts. Almost

commerce clause: Interpretation of the commerce clause in United States Supreme Court cases: In Swift & Co. v. United States (1905), for example, the Supreme Court held that a price-fixing scheme among Chicago meat-packers constituted a restraint of interstate commerce—and was therefore illegal under the federal Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)—because the local meatpacking industry was part of a larger…

Gustavus Swift: …founder of the meatpacking firm Swift & Company and promoter of the railway refrigerator car for shipping meat.

fox: Classification: velox (swift fox) Sometimes considered as two species, V. velox (swift fox) and V. macrotis (kit fox); large-eared pale foxes of the western North American plains (swift fox) and deserts (kit fox); shy and uncommon; adult length about 40–50 cm without the 20–30-cm tail, weight about…

Joseph Story: In Swift v. Tyson, 16 Peters 1 (1842; overruled 1938), he, in effect, created a “federal common law” for commercial cases by holding that federal trial courts, taking jurisdiction when the parties were citizens of different states, need not follow decisions by the courts of the…

Graham Swift is an English novelist and short-story writer whose subtly sophisticated psychological fiction explores the effects of history, especially family history, on contemporary domestic life. Swift grew up in South London and was educated at Dulwich College, York University, and Queens’

Graham Swift is an English novelist and short-story writer whose subtly sophisticated psychological fiction explores the effects of history, especially family history, on contemporary domestic life. Swift grew up in South London and was educated at Dulwich College, York University, and Queens’

Gustavus Swift was the founder of the meatpacking firm Swift & Company and promoter of the railway refrigerator car for shipping meat. A butcher’s helper at the age of 14, Swift became a buyer and slaughterer of cattle in 1859 and also opened a butcher shop in Eastham, Massachusetts. He became the

Gustavus Swift was the founder of the meatpacking firm Swift & Company and promoter of the railway refrigerator car for shipping meat. A butcher’s helper at the age of 14, Swift became a buyer and slaughterer of cattle in 1859 and also opened a butcher shop in Eastham, Massachusetts. He became the

Homer Fordyce Swift was a physician who, in collaboration with an English colleague, Arthur W.M. Ellis, discovered the Swift-Ellis treatment for cerebrospinal syphilis (paresis), widely used until superseded by more effective forms of therapy. Swift specialized in the treatment of syphilis,

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729). Swift’s father, Jonathan Swift the elder, was an

Taylor Swift is a multitalented singer-songwriter and global superstar who has captivated audiences with her heartfelt lyrics and catchy melodies, solidifying herself as one of the most influential artists in contemporary music. In 2024 she made history when she won the Grammy Award for album of

Taylor Swift is a multitalented singer-songwriter and global superstar who has captivated audiences with her heartfelt lyrics and catchy melodies, solidifying herself as one of the most influential artists in contemporary music. In 2024 she made history when she won the Grammy Award for album of

Homer Fordyce Swift: Ellis, discovered the Swift-Ellis treatment for cerebrospinal syphilis (paresis), widely used until superseded by more effective forms of therapy.

swiftlet, (genus Collocalia), any of numerous species of cave-dwelling birds belonging to the swift family, Apodidae, found from southeastern Asia (India and Sri Lanka) and the Malay Peninsula through the Philippines, and eastward to the islands of the South Pacific. The taxonomy of the 15 to 20

submarine: Attack submarines: The British Swiftsure class (six vessels, commissioned 1974–81) and Trafalgar class (six vessels, commissioned 1983–91) displaced between 4,000 and 4,500 tons at the surface and were about 87 metres (285 feet) long. They were originally armed only with torpedoes and dive-launched Harpoon missiles, consistent with their Cold…

Jack Swigert was a U.S. astronaut and command module pilot on the Apollo 13 mission (April 11–17, 1970), in which an intended Moon landing was canceled because of a ruptured fuel-cell oxygen tank in the service module. The crew, consisting of Swigert, lunar module pilot Fred W. Haise, Jr., and

Jack Swigert was a U.S. astronaut and command module pilot on the Apollo 13 mission (April 11–17, 1970), in which an intended Moon landing was canceled because of a ruptured fuel-cell oxygen tank in the service module. The crew, consisting of Swigert, lunar module pilot Fred W. Haise, Jr., and

Amelia Bingham was an American actress who not only achieved great popularity as a performer but also became perhaps the country’s first successful actress-producer. Amelia Swilley left Ohio Wesleyan University in 1890 when she was encouraged by Lloyd Bingham, manager of a traveling professional

Phoenix: European arrivals: In 1867 Jack Swilling, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, began a grain-milling business near the site of the present Sky Harbor International Airport to provision the federal garrison at Camp McDowell. Two years before Swilling’s arrival, a local farmer named John Y.T. Smith, the…

swim bladder, buoyancy organ possessed by most bony fish. The swim bladder is located in the body cavity and is derived from an outpocketing of the digestive tube. It contains gas (usually oxygen) and functions as a hydrostatic, or ballast, organ, enabling the fish to maintain its depth without

George Saunders: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021) is a series of essays by Saunders on 19th-century Russian writers derived from his experience teaching a course at Syracuse University, where he became a professor in 1997. Saunders’s Liberation Day (2022) is a collection of…

swimmer’s itch, an infection of the skin marked by prickling sensations and itching, caused by invasion of the skin by larvae of trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, often found in freshwater lakes and

The Swimmer, short story by John Cheever, published in The New Yorker (July 18, 1964) and collected in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964). A masterful blend of fantasy and reality, it chronicles a middle-aged man’s gradual acceptance of the truth that he has avoided facing—that his life is in

The Swimmer, American film drama, released in 1968, that was an adaptation of John Cheever’s allegorical short story of loss and disillusionment in suburban America. Burt Lancaster, wearing only a swimsuit throughout the movie, plays a middle-aged businessman who one day inexplicably decides to

swimming, in recreation and sports, the propulsion of the body through water by combined arm and leg motions and the natural flotation of the body. Swimming as an exercise is popular as an all-around body developer and is particularly useful in therapy and as exercise for physically handicapped

swimming, in zoology, self-propulsion of an animal through water. See aquatic

Turkish Van cat, breed of semilonghaired domestic cat distinguished mainly by its unusual colour pattern: white, with coloured markings only on the head and tail. “Van” is a common term in the breed’s native region, Central and South Asia, and is also used to describe other cats with similar

swimming crab, any member of the family Portunidae (order Decapoda of the class Crustacea, phylum Arthropoda). In these animals, the fifth (hindmost) pair of legs are flattened into paddles for swimming. The family includes the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), an edible crab of the Atlantic coast

cephalopod: Locomotion: …aided by lateral expansions (swimming keels) on the outer surface of the third pair of arms. Some squids (Onychoteuthis, Thysanoteuthis) are able to “fly” for several hundred feet, driven into the air by powerful thrusts from their jets and gliding on their expanded fins and arm keels. This normally…

swimming: History: The Romans built swimming pools, distinct from their baths. In the 1st century bce the Roman Gaius Maecenas is said to have built the first heated swimming pool.

Percival Everett: Other works and honors: …re: f (gesture), followed by Swimming Swimmers Swimming (2011) and Trout’s Lie (2015). Among his other honors are a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2014 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2015. In 2021 he also received the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.

swimsuit, garment designed for wearing while swimming. Sea bathing became popular in the mid-19th century when railroads first made it possible for people to get to the beach for their vacations. The first swimsuits concealed most of the body: women wore bloomers, black stockings, and a dress with

Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet and critic, outstanding for prosodic innovations and noteworthy as the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt. The characteristic qualities of his verse are insistent alliteration, unflagging rhythmic energy, sheer melodiousness, great variation of pace

Christianity: The design (or teleological) argument: Tennant (Philosophical Theology, 1928–30) and Richard Swinburne (using Thomas Bayes’s probability theorem in The Existence of God, 1979), taking account not only of the order and functioning of nature but also of the “fit” between human intelligence and the universe, whereby humans can understand its workings, as well as human…

Federico Fellini: Major works: …the cynical Il bidone (1955; “The Swindle”), which featured Broderick Crawford as the leader of a gang of con men who impersonate priests in order to rob the peasantry. Masina asserted her star quality in Le notti di Cabiria (1957; Nights of Cabiria), developing the minor character she played in…

Swindon, town and unitary authority in the northeastern part of the geographic and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England. Mostly in a fertile clay valley, the unitary authority is bounded to the north by the upper reaches of the River Thames and to the south by the steep chalk escarpment

suid, any member of the family Suidae, hoofed mammals, order Artiodactyla, including the wild and domestic pigs. Suids are stout animals with small eyes and coarse, sometimes sparse, hair. All have muzzles ending in a rounded cartilage disk used to dig for food. Some species have tusks. Suids are

livestock farming: Pigs: Pigs are relatively easy to raise indoors or outdoors, and they can be slaughtered with a minimum of equipment because of their moderate size (see meat processing: Hogs). Pigs are monogastric, so, unlike ruminants, they are unable to utilize large quantities of forage and…

hog cholera, serious and often fatal viral disease of swine. Characterized by high fever and exhaustion, the disease is transmitted from infected pigs via numerous carrier agents, including vehicles in which pigs are conveyed from place to place, dealers who journey from farm to farm, and farm

swine flu, a respiratory disease of pigs that is caused by an influenza virus. The first flu virus isolated from pigs was influenza A H1N1 in 1930. This virus is a subtype of influenza that is named for the composition of the proteins hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) that form its viral

influenza pandemic (H1N1) of 2009, the first major influenza outbreak in the 21st century, noted for its rapid global spread, which was facilitated by an unusually high degree of viral contagiousness. Global dissemination of the virus was further expedited by the unprecedented rates of passenger

hog house, building for housing swine, particularly one with facilities for housing a number of hogs under one roof. Typical housing protects against extremes of heat and cold and provides draft-free ventilation, sanitary bedding, and feeding. Simple hog houses are sometimes called sties. Movable

swine flu, a respiratory disease of pigs that is caused by an influenza virus. The first flu virus isolated from pigs was influenza A H1N1 in 1930. This virus is a subtype of influenza that is named for the composition of the proteins hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) that form its viral

leptospirosis, acute systemic illness of animals, occasionally communicable to humans, that is characterized by extensive inflammation of the blood vessels. It is caused by a spirochete, or spiral-shaped bacterium, of the genus Leptospira. Leptospires infect most mammals, particularly rodents and

Świnoujście, town, Zachodniopomorskie województwo (province), northwestern Poland, on a low-lying sandy island, Uznam (Usedom), that separates the Szczeciński Lagoon (Oderhaff), a lake at the mouth of the Oder River, from the Baltic Sea. A major fishing port and resort, Świnoujście has fine

Gallant Fox: 1930: Triple Crown: …two other horses, Questionnaire and Swinfield, were entered in the race. The capacity crowd of 40,000 sent Gallant Fox off at 8–5 odds and Whichone at 4–5, for there still was doubt among the experts that Gallant Fox had faced and beaten serious competition.

swing, in music, both the rhythmic impetus of jazz music and a specific jazz idiom prominent between about 1935 and the mid-1940s—years sometimes called the swing era. Swing music has a compelling momentum that results from musicians’ attacks and accenting in relation to fixed beats. Swing rhythms

Newcastle upon Tyne: The electrically operated Swing Bridge (1865–76), one of the greatest engineering achievements of its time, is on the site of Roman and medieval bridges. The Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas dates from the 14th century; another church occupied the site in 1123. The Guildhall (rebuilt 1655–58) stands on…

swing dance, Social dance form dating from the 1940s. Danced in the U.S. to swing music, the dance steps have distinct regional variations, including forms such as the West Coast swing, the East’s jitterbug-lindy, the South’s shag, and in Texas the push (Dallas) and the whip (Houston). Performance

Harry Belafonte: …and his notable albums include Swing Dat Hammer (1960), for which he received a Grammy Award for best folk performance. His collaborations with South African singer Miriam Makeba and Greek singer Nana Mouskouri helped introduce them to American audiences, and An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (1965) garnered a Grammy for best…

Mitchell Leisen: Films of the 1930s: Swing High, Swing Low (1937) teamed Lombard and MacMurray again, in a glitzy adaptation of the play Burlesque (1927) by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins. The film tracked the rise and fall of a trumpet player (MacMurray) who lets fame and a fast life…

Malvin Gray Johnson: …in 1929, when his painting Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was awarded the Otto H. Kahn prize (named for the German-born art patron and collector Otto Hermann Kahn) at an exhibition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation, a New York City organization devoted to supporting artistic, scientific, and other achievements of African…

joint: Joint movements: Swing, or angular movement, brings about a change in the angle between the long axis of the moving bone and some reference line in the fixed bone. Flexion (bending) and extension (straightening) of the elbow are examples of swing. A swing (to the right or left) of…

platform rocker, rocking chair with rockers fixed to move on a stationary base rather than on the floor. Introduced in the United States about 1870, it soon achieved popularity, partly because the movable section of the chair could be kept at a comfortable angle without oscillating. The base of the

Jonathan Demme: …and Howard (1980); the drama Swing Shift (1984), set on the home front during World War II; the influential Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (1984); the cult classic romantic road film Something Wild (1986), whose tone shifts from mirthful to menacing; and the quirky comedy Married to

Swing Time, American musical comedy film, released in 1936, that was the fifth teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It is considered by many to be their best collaborative effort. Lucky Garnett (played by Astaire) is a gambler and dancer who, after arriving late to his own wedding, finds