Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action, as their owner heads for home. Even the taxi men may smile. They know him. He is "the stout feller with the black stick who lives in the red house on Sparks...
...training in a high school has become extremely difficult for the student, encumbered as he is with extra-curricular activities and business and vocational courses. While no one would advocate a return to Jesuitical methods, which make a wearing drudgery out of school, it is surely plain that the swing to the opposite extreme has been excessive. Education in the humanistic sense has become an anachronism in the American school. The chief reason for this state of affairs must rest with Teachers College of Columbia University and its disciples; it is a powerful directive force, and its main tenet...
While the outcome of the primary causes no surprise, there is the prospect of a stiff battle ahead for the election on November 7. Whichever way the votes of O'Brien and Hamilton swing, will determine the outcome...
...thought. The magic of his thunder-bearing oratory was losing force, and his latest attempts at balancing the budget had revealed a dismaying lack of biceptual muscle, as well as nearly causing a village riot. In the next election it was all too possible that a revolt might swing the tide to Fiorello Laguardia, the Fusionist contender. If this occurred, the Tammany wigwam was likely to do a sizeable amount of starving in the ensuing months. It is a saying which Pollux is fond of repeating, "that necessity is the mother of invention." And so it proved to be. Before...
They are Ted and Lulu Hackett, happy hoofers whose act improves when small Ted Jr. (Jackie Cooperj is old enough to swing a cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an accident. He dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs...