Word: swing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cobra. One of those plays in which sex is held up to reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...
Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation the Republican Party has con- sidered the Negroes to be the especial wards of the G. O. P. Last week was instituted a determined move to swing the Negroes to the Democratic column. Various members* of the Executive National Negro Democratic Committee issued a call for a National Democratic Negro Convention in Baltimore, May 27. The announcement: "The Democratic Party is sure of victory this Fall because honesty will be the big issue, and the Republican Party certainly cannot boast of that "The Republican Party has never fulfilled its promises to the Negroes, who have...
...disappointed. The story of the great Marxian's creation of the Bolshevist Party, of his tremendous single-handed fight to swing its other leaders to his extreme radicalism, and of his leadership of the party through his long years of exile in Siberia, during the war, in Switzerland, and back to Russia, where he overthrew the provisional government of Kerensky and negotiated the now famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, is all narrated in a vivid and convincing manner. The author gives Lenin's political career in full, quoting dozens of records and letters and telling scores of illuminating anecdotes...
With the announcement yesterday of the cast for the forthcoming Dramatic Club production, "The Makropoulos Secret", preparations are in full swing...
...others, in that 'youth grows old'. And I wish I could be a little more "liberal". So: let the undergraduate hear the most radical men to be found, (whether bright or stupid), and let them hear a reasonable number of bright conservatives. Then perhaps when they begin the inevitable swing to the Right they will attain a true liberalism,--a virtue rarely found anywhere at the moment...