Word: pendulums
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...Automat at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, she came upon an ad announcing the opening of a new investment-counseling firm, Glass & Krey, just up the street. Sylvia made the trip over in such a hurry that her Phi Beta Kappa key was still swinging like a pendulum on her bosom when she arrived at the desk of Arthur William Glass. The sight of the pendant transfixed him. "I've always wanted to hire someone with one of those," he murmured before Sylvia could open her mouth. "What...
...Brought Back Balance." That the G.O.P. can count on any labor support at all suggests that the pendulum of Michigan politics may be swinging back. Soapy Williams took over in 1948 with an outpouring of labor strength that shook the teeth of the Republicans, who had been confidently in control of the state government for most of the century. Carefully the Democrats hammered out their own machine-a three-wheeled speedster that rolled on the vote-delivering power of union leaders, the organizational wizardry of Democratic Chairman Neil Staebler, and the popularity of ebullient bow-tied Soapy Williams, who could...
...standards are so different. I don't include the Phoenix Theater in this." About the future of the theatre, George Abbott feels pleased. "American theater is the best in the world now. We have the most ideas, the finest acting. Of course the fashion may change tomorrow. The pendulum may swing back any time...
...Broadway Bye Bye Birdie. Director Gower Champion's fresh and frantic musical about an Elvis-type crooner swings through the evening like a pendulum gone wild...
...Simpson who has advanced the proposition (in his One-Way Pendulum, not yet produced in this country) that if one weighing machine can speak your weight, five hundred weighing machines can sing the Hallelujah Chorus. Weighing machines that speak your weight are a phase of the twentieth-century American revolution that has not yet reached America, but the perfection of Simpson's repsonse to them, the carrying of lunacy to its amusingly disquieting end, elicited admiration and aroused high expectations for the two plays to be presented by Club 47 as its first production of the summer season...