Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...
Timed to coincide with America's get-tough-with-Russia policy and touched off by President Truman's pre-1948 political housecleaning blast, open season on all Communists of fact or fancy is now in full sway. Relies of Dies Committee days are back at their old stand on Capitol Hill, several state legislatures, including Massachusetts, are operating up-to-date star chambers, and in words strangely reminiscent of the days when Shirley Temple was labelled a dangerous red, Hollywood has been threatened with now investigations. Only the Cincinnati baseball team has escaped censure. Pounded for years from press...
Since the theory that crews are built, not born, holds sway on the River, Bolles spent the morning and afternoon workouts, which began on Monday and lasted through Saturday, trying to find the right man for the right slot in his Varsity boat--not seeing how fast the brawniest eight men could propel themselves through the water. As the crew candidates--everybody is still a candidate--grow tougher, the stroke goes up, but from the pre-vacation beat of 24 or 26, the maestro of the slides and stretchers has never pushed things above 30 to the minute...
...judges, of course, did not let beauty sway them. Ottawa's pretty, blue-eyed, 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott could skate too. Last week at Davos Platz, Switzerland, against 19 competitors from seven nations, she did her graceful spirals and jumps and double loops, topping it off with a cruncher: the one-foot axel and double salchow...
...Sidney Webb and other veterans lived in an "eternal political shop . . . mornings of dogged writing, all in our separate rooms; our ravenous plain meals . . . Beatrice throwing away her pen and hurling herself on her husband in a shower of caresses which lasted until the passion for work resumed its sway." In 1896, wrote Shaw (whom serious Beatrice Webb regarded as "a sprite"-a sort of undine with only a slender connection with the world of mortals): "The Fabian old gang can only afford a country house for our holiday because one of us [Sidney Webb] has a wife with...