Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trained men to help suppress it. Though politely declined, Spanish wiseacres found that offer the most significant in the entire affray. Rumor would not down that the entire uprising was backed not by Radicals but by Royalists and Fascists in an effort to throw the acknowledged Rightist swing of Spanish voters behind an open dictatorship...
...obscuring all this with the use of patriotic obfuscation, empty terms about cooperation of all for the good of all, the Conservatives probably can swing the nation with them in the next election. Concretely, and stripped of the blah, they offer security as opposed to equality. Furthermore they offer certain economics resulting from nationalization, abolition of competitive marketing, profitable business, which means active business. These advantages are obvious; the hidden results of lowered productivity, inefficient bureaucratization of industry with no ideological myth as an incentive, exploitation of the proletariat and of the rentier by rising prices are obscured. Given this...
Another chorus of quick-legged, milk-chocolate girls swing and stomp, shove and pull. A long succession of skits plays with the facts of life with the unsophistication of a barnyard. The king of tap-dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered...
...altar guilds were becoming "Good News Broadcasters." At the rate of 11,000 per day the ladies were signing up for a simple scheme by which they would make money for their churches just by buying, and getting other ladies to buy, certain nationally-advertised products. In full swing was the "Goodwin Plan...
...practically bossed the town. But when he ran afoul of the Pope (ill-famed Alexander VI) his star quickly waned. Arrested, tried and convicted (after 14 applications of torture) of false prophecy, he was hanged and burned. Before the death-march to the gibbet from which he was to swing, the Bishop who was pronouncing the formula of degradation got his words mixed. Savonarola corrected...