Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these in turn, two miser able delegates of India's untouchables [lowest class] scuttled to their places. All the Princes and Maharajas were gorgeously pugreed [turbaned], but all except a few were somberly, impressively clad in long ajkans [tightly-buttoned, turtlenecked black frock coats]. Overawed, Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing of the New York Evening Post cabled of the princes...
...industry through the new Cosden Oil Co. in which he had been given a half interest. In five states he obtained leases, built an organization. While friends gladly reported that Mr. Cosden had promised to "lay off the market," he nevertheless must have watched with pride the swing in his stock which carried it to $135 last year. At this time it was estimated that his second fortune had risen to some $15,000,000, and there were stories that he was prepared to buy control of Mid-Continent Petroleum...
...heavy medicine ball had gotten inside his breast and lodged where his heart ought to be. Just two years after his arrival at the pinnacle of his career, the country had swung widely out from behind him. He had sat up until 11:25 on election night, watching the swing take place as the returns came in. Now, the morning after, the nightmarish news was not only confirmed but colored darker. Seat after seat of the Republican majorities in Congress were being swept away in what, accurately or not, was being called all over the country an Anti-Administration landslide...
...embarrassment at being "pursued by two lovely ladies" (Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill was a Dry independent also-ran), with references to Mrs. McCormick's attempt to be a "dripping Venus rising from the sea of Chicago." Even the effort of Chicago's Republican Mayor William Hale Thompson to swing the city's Negro vote to him had not hurt Mr. Lewis who joshed the Mayor for deserting his "political fiancee at the altar." One fact predominated: Illinois is Wet and so is "J. Ham" Lewis...
...much a goal after touchdown can mean was clearly understood by Wisconsin rooters who watched their dependable Rebholtz, conference leader in kicking goals after touchdown, swing his boot. His kick went wide and Purdue...