Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week primary campaigns were in full swing in these States...
Weetamoe. John Pierpont Morgan was not there, but his son Junius was and so were General Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerard Lambert, all members of the owning syndicate. Jane Nichols, small granddaughter of Mr. Morgan, had been told to swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had been built on the ways and the wood had soaked up some of the grease. For two hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home...
...CRIMSON's "swing to the right," first at the appearance of the protest signed by 51 alumni, and now, with the formulation of the "Harvard Square Deal Association," has quite possibly been misinterpreted. Obviously, to accept the University's miserliness and technical evasions would be an abrupt about-face from its previous attitude. Editorially, the CRIMSON has declared itself out of sympathy with the attempt, first of the Alumni and, secondly, of the student group, mainly because of the attendant publicity and a resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard...
...Capitol feel snugly comfortable with the declaration: "Our finances are in sound condition." He envisaged a surplus of 225 millions for this fiscal year (ending June 30, 1930) and 122 millions for that of 1931 (ending June 30, 1931). Two months later, when Congress was in full swing considering new legislation for new expenditures, President Hoover grew alarmed, warned Congress and the country to slow down on spending (TIME, March 10). Last month when March income tax payments showed a shrinkage, the President again pleaded for economy, predicted for this fiscal year "a very moderate surplus" (Treasury estimate...
Virtue's Bed. An attractive girl, described by her friends as intelligent, is shanghaied into a North African sporting house. Stating repeatedly that the doors of hell swing both ways, she deserts her profession on receiving an inheritance and an English estate. In England she takes up the life of a country dowager...