Word: sways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this phrase sounds a trifle odd and strained at the moment, surely it is not because of any inherent peculiarity, but because our ears of late have been assaulted with catchwords of far different and more ominous connotations which appear to sway the world...
...Baritone Hans Hermann Nissen, with a traditional lock of property hair over his left eye like a well-bred Scottie, stalked woodenly as Wotan in Die Walküre. Judges gave him several points on power, few on subtlety. Two Italian sopranos were broken in on Puccini's sway-backed war horse La Boheme: Mafalda Favero who moped placidly as the tuberculous Mimi, and Marisa Morel who flounced her skirts and shrilled nervously as Musetta...
...their demand for a Supreme Court Justice. Never in the history of the country has a man born west of the Mississippi River been appointed to the Supreme Tribunal. Mr. Justice Sutherland, who is listed as hailing from Utah, was born in England, and Mr. Justice Field, who held sway during the seventies and eighties, although he was registered from California, really was an Eastern invader from new York...
...snakes began to weave back & forth as if they were "dancing" to the music. (Many herpetologists believe that cobras actually pay little attention to the pipes but sway in an effort to follow the body movements of the charmer. Carefully keeping them swaying with a motion of his hand. Sir Miles's charmer stopped playing, inched forward, and with his other hand firmly grasped one reptile behind the neck, lifted it into a bag. He then repeated the performance on the remaining eight...
Replying to charges in the local press that universities were "hotbeds of Communism" and that by implication, through his support of Loyalist Spain, he himself was a Communist, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night branded these statements as "the universal trick of all people trying to sway public opinion...