Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influence of her sturdy farmers and Liberals who scarcely love a lord. Their leader and longtime Premier, coarse & hearty Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, has taken the line that it is un-Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King was ousted at last by rich, pious, Conservative and lord-loving Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the set in Canadian opinion against Royal honors was so stiff that it has taken Mr. Bennett (a personal friend of the King) nearly three years to make up his mind...
...Government in the official role of an iron-fisted dunner, persuaded President Roosevelt to sidestep this provision of the Securities Act by sponsoring a potent, but purely private, protective agency (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week the Foreign Bondholders' Protective Council completed its organization, prepared to swing into action...
Another lynching was done in Maryland last week, this time not on the ragged Eastern Shore but in the proud old city of Baltimore. The Baltimore Civic Opera Company was responsible when it put on a one-act affair called Swing Low. In it Tenor A. Roy Williams, blacked up as a Negro, was making harmless love to Soprano Elsie Craft (also in blackface) when an operatic mob appeared to drag him offstage to a hanging...
...Baltimoreans, Pianist Emmanuel Wad and Playwright Elmer Greensfelder, wrote Swing Low. The title refers not to the hanging but to the recurrence of the spiritual ''Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" which impressed the audience as being the finest bit of music in the opera...
...drop to drink, never smoked, never used bad language. He became head of the college Y.M.C.A.. and also King of the Imps (noted for their heavy drinking), was rated a "swell guy" and finally was elected president of the Academic department. His inherited drive was already in full swing...