Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago convention of Midwestern Dance Masters told about and demonstrated two graceful midwestern dances, the "Sorority Sway" and "Sea Gull Waltz"; also a choppy one called the "Chug...
...increasing the citizens' freedom to hold religious parades and to ring churchbells while they did so. Previous regulations had required official permission for each and every general bell-ringing. Reason : it is often by churchbells that popular revolts are called. Disgruntled at this relaxation in the strong-arm sway of Dictator-President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, the Minister of War and others protested. The difference could not be settled...
Morgan Family. When Commonwealth & Southern Corp. was organized recently by Bonbright & Co. with 60 million shares capitalization and Morgan backing, observers saw it as a sister to potent United Corp. which would extend the Morgan utility sway south, southwest, inland to the Great Lakes. Last week their beliefs were justified...
Each became last week the theatre of a miniature civil war. Troops loyal to President Chiang battled with disaffected soldiery left over from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of U. S. geography, imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi...
MUTED TRUMPET sonorously and glamorously holds sway in Ted Ween's "COME ON, BABY." The other side of the record is occupied busily with Shilkret's "HERE'S THAT PARTY...