Word: swing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOLSON has a new picture which is no doubt packing them in on that suburb of Cambridge known as B'way. From it come SONNY BOY and BEGGARS OF LIFE. They have a wistful swing that will assure their acceptance...
...said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...
...several years there was very little doubt about who would win the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I. Tilden would swing lazily through the first rounds; in the third and fourth rounds it became easier to see that he would win the last. In late afternoon matches his huge shadow would creep and flicker toward the clubhouse. By the time his opponent's shadow was in the middle of the press marquee, Tilden's shadow had gone upstairs. It was a terrifying shadow, with steps like dark lightning, enough to frighten any opponent...
...change from home life to fraternity life is for most men and women their first attempt to adjust themselves to an entirely different mode of living. And it is the more versatile of the new students who most readily get into the swing of things. --The Daily Illini
...audience to order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted he would "probably" carry Georgia and Arkansas, and "possibly" Virginia and Texas. They said the border-states of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma would surely be Anti-Smith. They planned mass meetings, advertised for funds, pledged...