Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give better odds than 11 to 9, and some figured 9 to 9. Washington's political wiseacres, who at first counted on the power of the New Deal's political machine to whip reluctant Senators into line, the persuasion of Franklin Roosevelt's irresistible tongue to swing public opinion, realized one thing which they had failed to take into account: the ability of nine old men immured in a neoclassic temple to outmaneuver the ablest politician in the U. S. Yet by accident or design the Supreme Court had twice done...
METROPOLITAN--The Go Getter: 10.46, 1.22, 3.58, 6.39, 9.10. Good. Benny Goodman: 12.34, 3.10, 5.46, 8.22, 10.58. Swing King at his best...
...Charles E. Coughlin boasted that he would swing 9,000,000 votes in the last Presidential campaign, but neither major party made any noticeable effort to enlist his support. When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great...
...melodrama. To Lee Tracy addicts it marks one more, perhaps a permanent "comeback" of their favorite, who is now alleged to have forsworn the haywire ways which brought him into disrepute with Hollywood producers. Diana Gibson looks like an outdoor version of Marion Nixon and acts with a promising swing. Best shots: Tracy defeating his hecklers by getting into the burning dance hall through the skylight; the Potter gang capturing the gold shipment by overcoming the staff of the armored car with gas released from an attacking automobile, an episode that will be censorable in several States since it suggests...
Featured in the ebullient swingfest, which was furnished mostly by trumpets and clarinets, were an inspired drummer who performed on a wastebasket and a stick, and William G. Hewitt '38, who played the zither. The program included "Wintergreen", "Organ Grinder's Swing" and several Harvard songs, and ended with a triumphant snake-dance...