Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seated within a three-panel screen, an old Negro pulls a red plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
...first is that the Pops are now in full swing and that this week the Isadora Duncan dancers have been added to the program. Eva leGallienne is the other attraction, and her repertory company will give "The Cherry Orchard" tonight and Wednesday matinee: "Peter Pan Tuesday night, and "The Master Builder" Wednesday night. The engagement is only for two weeks, so plans had best be made early...
...administrative one extending over long periods and concerned with large investments. The multifold philanthropy of that most generous Scotchman, Andrew Carnegie, is suffering now in one of its branches through the realization that the pension fund is running rapidly low. As a result the Foundation feels obliged to swing suddenly from the prodigal to the closed-purse. Harvard, with a large percentage of the men who benefit by the fund, suffers the hardest blow. The rather violent readjustment of amounts to be paid in the future would doubtless cause in many cases considerable annoyance...
...head the procession, itself headed by the fox, in this case rumored to be Bob himself. Whether the huntsmen will arrive at the State House in time to present Governor Allen with the first press issue of the current parody number is a good question. Hounds and horns will swing into action at approximately 3 o'clock. The outcome should be determined soon afterwards...
...weeks from tomorrow Harvard will have its second race of the season when it races over the Charles River Basin course with Cornell, which promises to be better than the eight turned out from Ithaca in recent years. The resemblance of the old Courtney swing is evident in the 1929 eight which has easily triumphed over the Jayvee outfit in all of this season's rows. Reports from Ithaca warn that Cornell is a crew to be watched...