Word: sways
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...save the mark--of Maeterlinck. It is probably in the manner of its telling that the reason can be found for the strangely unsatisfying quality of the play. Undeniably it is written badly. There are moments when Mr. Connelly's genius for portraying the 'homus Americanus' is allowed full sway, and what takes place behind the footlights then becomes amusing and interesting. But when he ventures into the land of elves and gnomes and a forgotten boyhood, Connelly so patently lacks grace and deftness that the result is heavy-handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake...
...fitting that this serious problem should receive recognition. Not only from a food connoisseur's point of view, but also from a national stand-point, the situation is grave. Restaurant chefs have had the American public under their domineering and dictatory sway long enough, the docile American has allowed himself to be tyrannized by foreign lords, disguised as cooks...
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...