Word: sway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clifton Webb, staggering around a weird barroom full of grotesque, masked figures, some of whom sway in cadence on rockered bar stools, some of whom drink from gargantuan champagne glasses filled by two-headed attendants. Climax comes when Mr. Webb seizes and strips one of the patrons, rushes her offstage...
...story narrates, with the complete self-identification with his characters of which Meyer was capable--through he troubles himself little with archaeological preciseness--the conflict between Thomas a Becket and King Henry II, from the time when the King himself disturbed the serene sway of his chancellor by creating him Archbishop of Canterbury, through the conversion of Becket into a meek exponent of passive resistance, a Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext...
...Martin, is a conflict of cultural values. Romantic ideas such as Rousseau made popular and hoped to make universal are as inimical to the cause of liberty as any other form of intolerance. Tolerance and liberty can prevail "only so long as the influence of a civilized minority holds sway." Mr. Martin is skeptical, not to say suspicious, of the present trend of social organization. "It is precisely because it seems to be necessary to give up so many social liberties in modern industrial society that mankind must guard its personal rights with stubborn vigilance. . . . Resort to legislation should...
...wife, delivers them on the Senate floor with slashing vigor. His oratory is spoiled by a crudity of voice and diction. He does not often enter rough-&-tumble Senate debate. Unlike blind Georges Scapini of the French Chamber of Deputies (TIME, April 7) he has never been known to sway his colleagues at any critical time or on a matter of great moment...
...study of Latin or Greek as a requisite for the A. B. degree at Harvard is a conservative requirement for this degree that still holds sway at many Eastern colleges. Yale and Princeton, for example, are even more hidebound in demanding the full number of units in one of these languages at school; both demand further one year of college work in the Classics, but this last has at least the grace of making the student's eventual degree to some extent dependent on his college studies...