Word: sways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Venus and Bacchus hold alternate sway...
...know anything about tennis to understand it. Even as a generality, the crux of a vague plot, you must recognize in that moment the nice opposition of tensions and sympathies that make any situation either rococo or sublime. Here is a great champion. For six years he has held sway over the whole world, and if he succeeds for the seventh year he will equal the legend left behind by the greatest champion* before him. More than that, he knows that the confidence of his countrymen rests in his prowess, for he opposes a man from another nation...
...impressive figure on the Senate floor. He was no bombaster of the Tom Heflin school, no ranting humorist of the Pat Harrison species. His popularity grew; people began to say that the South was having a political renaissance, that soon the John Calhouns and the Henry Clays would again sway the Senate...
...suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still one. of the most potent in Germany. Frenchmen have not so completely disestablished Catholicism as not to heed an occasional whisper from the Vatican...
...Jungle stretches southwest out of the business section. Here are factories, dirty alleys, frame hovels and a population of Negroes and foreign-born toilers who cluster at eventide in Greek restaurants and poolrooms. Here, for 25 years, Jumbo Crowley held sway, sending his cosmopolitan children to the polls to vote as he thought best; dispensing protection, advice or instructions, to henchmen in whose doings he never was implicated-until lately, when he was arrested for directing certain alcohol operations, and since when- they say-he has completely reformed...