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Word: swing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beaten by an army of lambs under the leadership of a lion. Failure of leadership lost the World War for Germany at the outset when a timid High Command failed to keep the strength of its right wing up to the plan of Alfred von Schlieffen on the famed swing through Belgium. Conversely, the Japanese capitalized on brilliant chance-taking when they sent an army to the Asiatic mainland in 1904 with out first bothering to clear out the Russian Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Swing Left. For nearly 18 months, Daladier laid low. Then in 1935, the French Popular Front of Leftist parties was formed. Herriot balked at the Radical Socialists going far enough Left to join with Communists; Leftist Daladier, swinging further Left, plunged in. Said he, "I represent the petite bourgeoisie and I declare that the middle class and the working class are natural allies." He marched in the big Popular Front demonstration of July 14, 1935, between Communists Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, gave the clenched-fist Communist salute, swore fidelity to the Popular Front at the Bastille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Right Somersault. Few French Cabinets have survived such troublous periods as the last 14 months. Daladier's Cabinet survived by a steady process of swinging Right-a right swing so sharp that he virtually performed a political cartwheel. In general, the French Right favored appeasement. The British Cabinet, bent on handouts for the dictators, pressed Leftist Daladier to give way. He sealed tight the Spanish border, an action which also sealed the fate of the Spanish Loyalists. French finances groaned, the franc wavered, the country rapidly lost its gold. At Munich he gave way completely and brought France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Swing. In small, low-ceiled, table-touching spots where there is hardly room enough to swing a cat, the "cats" swing the room late and loud. Headquarters for swing is Manhattan's sand Street with its solid block of night spots (during speakeasy days, an irate 5 2nd Street householder defensively posted a sign reading "Private House"). On 52nd Street is The Onyx Club, Swing's self-styled "cradle," where Crooner Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan Films). The year 1939 is the biggest season Gilbert & Sullivan ever had. Hot on the heels of Broadway's three Mikados-one hallmarked, one half-swing and one pure Harlem-comes the first Mikado in cinema. Made in England's Pinewood Studios last year by Director Victor Schertzinger and a quorum of first-string members of London's famed D'Oyly1"Carte Company, the screen version of the world's most famed operetta is a full-length, Technicolor facsimile of the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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