Word: sways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holds sway...
Nowadays the bustling Waring organization occupies a full floor on Broadway, where Fred holds sway like a master of ceremonies. Only other active member of the original four is Poley McClintock, who more than any other member has made the Waring band memorable, by his froggy-voiced interpolations. Fred Buck is dead. Tom Waring is still considered one of the gang but spends most of his time practicing for a debut as a concert baritone. Fred directs production, helps write continuity, coaches the gang in rehearsal ("come lively," "stay with me," "give it rapture!"), plays golf...
Until this week courts had held that Article III-Section 1 of the Constitution* meant the Federal Government could not tax its judges' salaries. The inference was that Congress might sway justice by slapping taxes on its dispensers. That interpretation, acid-tongued Justice Felix Frankfurter in effect ruled this week, is so much tommyrot...
...turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again. Nine years ago Director Hanson held a Festival of American Music at which he conducted a bushel or so of new U. S. music. The festival was so successful that it was repeated every year...
...swinging back into the German orbit, probably for a long period of time," commented John M. Potter '26, assistant professor of History and Literature on Hitler's latest move. "In one brief year the bases of the Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Austria, and Bohemia have swung back under German sway, but what the eventual outcome will be it is now impossible accurately...