Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith were not alarmed. Reed men, it was understood, were to organize delegations in States lack- ing "favorite sons." The probable result: having been instructed for a Wet, Reed delegates would, if and when his chances died at the convention, have only to exercise religious tolerance to swing to the other outstanding Wet, Candidate Smith. And Senator Reed is the author of the epigram: "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance...
...Protestant Episcopal Church is not established by the Government as is the Anglican Church in England. Otherwise its situation is largely parallel. High-church and low-church divisions obtain; pulpit-occupants are more likely than pew-sitters to swing to high-churchliness. Excitement in the U. S. was therefore stirred, last week, less by prospects of disestablishment in Great Britain than by the papal encyclical and its effects upon church unity...
...ergo, the most valid raison d'etre for intercollegiate football in its present form. Regardless of all the other merits of the problem, the money making potentiality of football, necessary as it is in the absence of any other means of supporting athletic exercises, is sufficient to swing the scales in its favor. It is the ultimate argument for bigger stadia, better athletes, and more publicity...
...Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...
That President Cosgrave may meet as many Irish-Americans as possible during his projected 16 days in the U. S., it was announced that he would make a brief swing around Manhattan, through Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston, with only a brief courtesy call at Washington. Irish folk rejoiced that soon two slender, sharp-nosed presidents would shake each other by the hand, cementing bonds of unity. Meanwhile they scanned and praised once more the dynamic, fateful career of William Thomas Cosgrave...