Word: sways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Siegfried. It has taken the "Made in Germany" sign seven years to come back and its sway is still restricted. In motion pictures it becomes with this production an established mark of excellence. Siegfried is certainly one of the best pictures ever shown...
...rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...
...Morocco (known also as the She-reefian Empire) is nominally under the technically autocratic sway of Sultan Mulai Yusef. In the Spanish zone, where the Riff is situate, Abd-el-Krim is the most potent figure. In the French zone-by far the greater part of Morocco-the greatest man is not the Sultan, who is a mere shadow, but Marshal Lyautey. This soldier, who has won fame solely by his invaluable work in Morocco, is the embodiment...
This afternoon the Alumni of the University will hold sway in the Yard, when the Alumni exercises begin at 12 o'clock with a general Alumni luncheon in front of Matthews. The class of 1925, newly-made alumni, will join in the general spread. These exercises and those of Phi Beta Kappa Day, tomorrow, complete the list of events of the week in Cambridge...
...regret was caused by the fact that his father and mother were at that moment being sold at auction in a meadow three miles away. No one was so heartless as to describe that scene to him: the 3,000-odd onlookers, bidders, the group of old stallions, sway-backed mares, shaggy, spindling colts-remnants of the famed stable of the late August Belmont, being sold by a red-faced auctioneer. No one told him of the prices: how his father, Fair Play, went to Joseph E. Widener for $100,000; his mother, Mahubah, brought a miserable...