Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday afternoon tennis party was in full swing at Banker Harvey Dow Gibson's home near the Creek Club in Locust Valley, L. I. Mr. Gibson was wanted on the telephone. When he returned to his guests he looked thoughtful. It had been Secretary Mellon, asking Banker Gibson to be in Washington the next...
...cast. One is gored by a bull, another is murdered, the third is shot accidentally. The play is temporarily interrupted to permit some more-than-half naked chorus girls to cavort in cafe and carnival scenes and to introduce one song, "Taking Off," which has a very pleasant swing...
...generalized: "The shade of Bryan hovers over the world situation now. May it guide us." On the same platform sat Mr. C.H. Minor, representing International General Electric. "Bryan was right!" cried he. "Bryan was merely ahead of his time." Other Britons taking these cues, there was soon in full swing last week what might be called a Britain-for-Bryan boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly...
...felt increasingly as time goes on, discontent meaning more & more Labor votes the longer an election is delayed. 2) The rise in internal prices due to the National Government's taking the pound off gold means that Britons will soon pay more for bread and meat, may swing toward Labor in their wrath. 3) Conservative strategists think present days of crisis are the ideal time to convince British voters that they need a protective tariff...
...swing in behind Oklahoma and Texas for better oil prices, Kansas, through its Public Service Commissioner, ordered producers to boost crude prices to 60? per bbl. or show cause why their wells should not be closed down...