Word: sways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot soothe them. The lecture speaks more and more slowly, his words finally arriving in a heaving rhythm which leaves the Vagabond with faint shudders. The class closes, and he wanders forth, counting the brown boards in the hall. He enters the local cinema, where refractory shapes sway in a concatenation of primordial emotions which is the very essence of ennui. Lights go by; imbeciles speak. The streets are black, and suddenly he is in the four-poster once more. The light goes...
...perfume etc. A group of about seven or eight seated in the usual Friday evening position listening to the "March of TIME." How we were all enjoying the program when all of a sudden the program stops the lights go out a rattle is heard, the floor begins to sway, the lights swing from one side to another like the pendulum on a huge clock, glass is breaking, bottles are falling everywhere. We try to reach the door but the floor is swaying so that progress seems very slow...
...dance crazily or why the students had begun running out of their dormitories. In Los Angeles, where crowds going home to dinner had complained of the sultry, oppressive atmosphere, electric lights blinked. A newspaperman, looking down on the city, saw the square 28-story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices began to fall. The floor he was standing on bent gently up and down. An old Californian at his elbow said: "This is going to be a bad one." A cloud of dust began to rise through the stricken town...
...could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often of the champagne of life. M. Bernard de Lacombe has seen fit to describe him as the "chess player," calmly watching the whole turmoil of unrestrained human ambitions, toying in his delicate fingers...
...reason for Tammany's long sway, which has never been broken more than temporarily, is not always understood. It is generally assumed that it is a matter of graft, of efficient wardheeling, and of reciprocity from all protected interests. People forget that Tammany paid the rent for the family that was about to be evicted, that they distributed free coal during a hard winter, that last summer they gave the children of the neighborhood an outing when the city sweltered. There are those, however, who do not forget, who know that the organization which is no doubt making a little...