Word: swing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
Wise the middle-aged golfer who learns to cut down his swing to conserve energy. And wise the middle-aged squash player who, speedy in his day, learns a softball style and lets the other fellow slash. Such is the wisdom of Dr. Harold R. Mixsell, hale squash oldster of Manhattan's Princeton Club, that his new softball style is even more baffling than the slam-banging game he used to play. Last week, it won for him, with great ease, his fourth consecutive national veterans' squash championship. Runner-up: William Murray Lee of the Columbia University Club...
...Pronounced "kareeong." President Coolidge Americanized it phonetically, said "karilon." A carillon differs from a chime principally in that its bells do not swing, and that they are tuned to a chromatic scale. A carillon is played on a keyboard like a piano but the carilloneur strikes the keys with his fists. *There are 283 persons in the U. S. with incomes more than...
...President Coolidge took up a pen and wrote "Calvin." He took up another pen and wrote "Cool." With a third pen he wrote "idge" and as he dotted the "i" the Swing-Johnson bill, authorizing the Federal Boulder Dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, became effective. California's Senator Johnson and Representative Swing stood by, rejoicing over their seven-year job, done at last. Each legislator got one of the pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram...
...Sloan's prediction was apparently based on three items: 1) Ford production, which did not get into full swing until the early autumn of 1928, may reach a much higher total in 1929; 2) Chevrolet, now a six-cylinder car, plans a greater push rather than a letdown in 1929; 3) Chrysler looms as a potent rival of General Motors...