Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war they will be voting-ten to twelve to 15 million votes of fighting men. These . . . voters will swing solidly behind an American program, national and international in scope and outlook. . . . This is really a job for the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and other fighting men's organizations. Politicians, the isolationists, the appeasers, the pacifists . . . had better ... go 'way back and sit down. . . . We listened to them after the last war and let them run things, and they failed us. We mean business this time and are not in a mood to stand...
Thirty-nine of our editorial people went to college in the Middle West-and this group sometimes made our offices pretty hectic when the football season was in full swing. Six came to us from Wisconsin, four each from Missouri and Nebraska, three each from Northwestern, Chicago, Western Reserve and Michigan. And 13 other Mid-Western colleges and universities have each sent...
Harvard Jazzmen are featuring a group of New York swing festers, namely Frankie Newton, Al Morgan, Arthur Karle, and Pinky Black at their third concert, Saturday. The bang-up affair is being held in the Lowell House Dining Hall, and as usual, any college musicians who care to play may drop around between 2 and 5 o'clock and lend their talents...
...doctrines. Now it is J. Edgar Hoover commenting on child delinquency; now it is an admiral complaining about inadequate preparation in mathematics. . . . The public is now Essentialist-minded. [Its] attitude . . . has been largely formulated in the fiery furnace of war. . . . Now there is the danger that the public will swing too far. . . Progressive education . . . proclaimed that traditional education had become a ritual ... a mold into which the enthusiasm and idealism of youth were poured with unfortunate results...
There are also some new characters: Rose, whose face is transformed and whose body sways when swing music as sails her from the factory loudspeakers; Bert Ogmore, the Communist assistant foreman, who is so devout he is practically a Russian; Lord Brixen, the fashion plate, who is a safe second string of the Conservative Party, and four men who are responsible for the functioning of the factory and most of the novel's dramatics: James Cheviot, the general manager; Francis Blandford, his chief engineer; Maurice Angleby, assistant engineer; Bob Elrick, the works superintendent...