Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wipe out corruption, the protective tariff and the Ku Klux Klan. Then he retired for a brief rest on his estate at Long Island, only to set forth once more into the Middle West, first into Indiana, speaking at Richmond, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Evansville. . . . He planned then to swing across Illinois to St. Louis, and return East by way of Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio...
...comedy, which is having its first showing before metropolitan audiences, is simple. William Augustus Jones, employed as a copywriter in the Carver Advertising Agency, conceives the idea that the only way to get on in business is to build up acquaintances on the golf course, and to swing big deals at the nineteenth hole. His plans for an advertising campaign fail to please Mr. Wilson, the manager of a giant soap factory, who takes his business away from the Carver Agency...
There is talk that the Republicans may try to use some of Mr. Hoover's influence in California to help swing the state for them, but that might induce Senator Johnson to open his mouth?for LaFollette. For Hoover is a man whom Senator Johnson does not like. California is not ungrateful for what Johnson has done for her, but he has made the means of expressing her gratitude difficult. In the give and take of politics, he has lacked the capacity for mutual easements and accommodations with his fellows. And in 1924 his 1912 Progressivism is a bit outworn...
With heads of seven leading universities of the East as officers, the John W. Davis College League is preparing to swing the college vote of the country to the Democratic standards this fall. Sponsored by President Eliot, who has accepted the chairmanship, the league is organizing clubs in various universities and attempting to enroll thousands of alumni...
Than Alexa Stirling there is no finer mistress of golfing style in this country. Glenna, masculine of wrist, short of swing, comes next. Edith's game, while steady and dependable, is more loosely constructed than theirs, but she makes up the difference in temperament. Like brother Dexter, the intercollegiate champion, she is bursting with boyish energy and spirit. Her interests are not confined to golf alone...