Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there's Smith. Turn to your left at Ware, proceed with decorum (the latter is a necessity) and swing proudly into the home of Cal Coolidge, Columnist. Once there, practice saying "Oh, really", and you have the pith of any conversation likely to intrude on the campusian walks of America's Greatest Women's College. So saying, the Vagabond will leave the shades of Sophia Smith with a parting admonition to the effect that the entertainment consists mostly of absorbing the cleverest, catchiest, and downright distinctive set of rules governing any herd of femmes congregated anywhere. To make the game...
...Meeting to discuss the vexed Saar Territory, the League Council ordered by unanimous vote that the 300 Allied troops still stationed there be withdrawn within three months. Theory: this shrewd French "concession" on the eve of the Reich elections (see p. 22) was expected to swing many a vote to the People's Party of "successful" Dr. Curtius, his party being the most friendly in Germany to France...
After a hard and brisk scrimmage with the seconds on Saturday and a day of rest yesterday Harvard's football contingent will swing into action again this afternoon opening its second week of practice. It will also be the second last week of practice before the opening game with Vermont on October...
...string men today, in the morning, when they will also move over to their new quarters in the new Dillon Field House. The seconds will move over in the afternoon and by Monday sufficient lockers will have been installed to house the remainder of the athletic teams that will swing into action on Soldiers Field soon...
...President. He was violently speculated upon for almost every post in the Cabinet before inauguration. Each time President Hoover named a new commission, Mr. Robinson's name bobbed up in White House gossip as a leading candidate for membership. But, somehow, Mr. Robinson never seemed able to swing into a niche. Last week, however, the President did fit him neatly into the National Drought Commission...