Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognized as having one of the leading "swing bands" in the country, Hallett and his incomparable music were chosen by a total of 462 votes cast by the Freshmen to show their preference of orchestras in a poll conducted by the Union Committee...
...appeals court, surrounded by his friends, a Royalist shouted the one potent word, "Assassin!" It was the signal for pandemonium. Martyrs' friends and assassin's friends joyously joined battle, screaming, slugging, slapping and pulling. Frot's friends shrieked "Liberty! Liberty!" Somebody got one good swing at Frot just before a slim, dark youth ducked under Frot's guard, seized his wiry black beard and all but yanked it out by the roots. Republican Guardsmen rushed in, hustled Frot and beard-puller away. The beard-puller turned out to be Francois, 21-year-old son of rowdy...
...possibility of Governor Talmadge's revolt giving the electoral vote of the South to the Republican party seems remote to Knox, although he said, "I believe that Florida, North Carolina, and Texas are very doubtful at the present time, and that there is a good chance for them to swing to the G. O. P. column in November. Furthermore, although this is just speculation, I believe that Al Smith's speech in Washington lost at least a million votes for Roosevelt...
Sirs: I appreciated immensely "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho," and have found ample opportunity to quote the impressions of "Swing." However, there is another term that eludes definition-''Corn." Being a pseudo-musician, I have glibly and authoritatively used it without a quaver. But at last one malicious person demanded a translation, and I was pretty well stopped. . . . STEVE HARRISON...
...Goodenough was in Fairbanks, Alaska where officers of the First National Bank have been having trouble with their vault. To service their equipment, they summoned Mr. Goodenough, of Covington's Mosler Lock Co. To Chicago, to Manhattan, even to Cuba, Locksmith Goodenough has traveled, has watched jammed doors swing open at the touch of his skilled fingers. While on his way to Fairbanks he stopped off at Helena, Montana, worked on the balky lock of a vault in the Federal Reserve Bank. No locksmith west of the Mississippi had been able to open the door, which had been jarred...