Word: sway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roberta" has the unusual distinction of having the feminine leads quite the most interesting. Fay Templeton, during her lone scene in the first act, holds majestic sway over all the proceedings. Odette Myrtil, in the part of the violently self-assertive star customer of Madame Roberta's couturier establishment, handles admirably her difficult task in replacing Lyda Robert. It is no easy trick to supplant the dynamic, hip-swinging Lyda in a typically Roberti role, but Odette Myrtil is really all that can be desired short of the genuine Miss Roberti herself. Tamara, in the role of Stephanie, the successor...
...ditch was found. Clearing away the filling this year a British expedition led by J. L. Starkey uncovered, 60 ft. below the city level, a temple erected long before Rehoboam's wall. It was first built in the 15th Century B.C., when southern Palestine was under the political sway and religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this writing revealed affinities with Sinaitic scripts discovered near Mt. Sinai and with Phoenician scripts found in Syria. Orientalists were excited at this unexpected bridging of an ancient linguistic...
Compare rugby. For speed it is far ahead of American football. The play can sway from one end of the field to the other without interruption with breathtaking speed. It does not depend on intercepted forward passes or recovered fumbles or referees' whistles. Its agility depends upon a combination of foot, hand and head work and the changes are so rapid as to furnish intense excitement at all times. As for the quality of guts. I know you will agree that the rugby fullback, all by himself in front of his goal, who must fall on the ball...
...bankers they all are planning For another great big war. To make them rich from the workers' dead, That's all that war is for. So if you don't want to see bullets holding sway Then come on, all you workers, And join our fight today. Chorus: Put one more S in the U. S. A. To make it Soviet. One more S in the U. S. A. Oh, we'll live to see it yet. When the land belongs to the farmers* And the factories to the working men- The U. S. A. when...
...look at situation inside the Democratic party from a political standpoint. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York commands a substantial following. So does Bernard M. Baruch, though the latter has been influential in party councils rather than in the various state organizations where Al Smith holds sway...