Word: sway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often that the Vagabond allows such mundane conversation to hold sway in his sanctum but tonight the company was feeling just in that mood. Anyway, the Old Fellow finds it very hard to refuse any wish of his little friends...
Dunster dancers will sway to the syncopations of Jim Carmedy and his orchestra from 5.30 to 8.30 o'clock Saturday evening. October 26, following the Dartmouth game...
Assuming that the Viceroy, who is ultimately responsible to His Majesty's Government, keeps hands off and orders the provincial governors to keep their hands off, India will have been reborn-or "unfrozen" as onetime Viceroy Viscount Halifax declared recently with enthusiasm. The native cabinets will have sway within India's vast borders and even control the police, a feature of the new Constitution which has given Tory Die-Hards the jitters. True, so great an authority as Lord Halifax has observed: "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed," but they necessarily will be formed...
...urban equivalent for the now defunct Wild West thriller, "G-Men," the terrier-like James Cagney swaggers his way through a tempestuous epic of the Department of Justice. Technical perfection and a deft, rapid-fire tempo combine to obscure the insanity of the plot, and, when public enemies sway to the stutter of government machine guns, Willie cheers just as he would if the last rustler had cashed in his chips. The philosopher may believe that "G-Men" misses fire as social drama, but he will hardly find it boring...
...sugar beets, fruit, vegetables, milk, milk products, wool and 2) to pry into the records of all handlers and manufacturers of all AAA products (TIME, May 13). Contrariwise, handlers who hate the AAA have launched a determined counter-drive to make Congress reduce instead of extend AAA's sway. Peak of this agitation came last month when a delegation of New England Governors went to Washington wailing that unless the cotton processing tax was withdrawn, their states' textile industry would be ruined (TIME, April 22). At that time AAAdministrator Chester Davis told a friend: "Well, there...