Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats of the East, conservative at heart, began to wonder whether the Rhode Island defeat could be used to swing Franklin Roosevelt on a rightward course. Said Senator Gerry of Rhode Island: "I believe this evidences a distinct trend against some of the Roosevelt policies, especially the processing tax. ... It was not a protest against the local organization." Said Senator Walsh of Massachusetts: "The only explanation that occurs to me is that certain economic policies . . . had created a sentiment against the Administration, but I did not think it had reached such proportions. I feel sure the Administration will be able...
...Anthologist Edgar Lee Masters commented with a shrug: "The King and the Sea is nothing but verse-almost prose in fact. It can't be compared with Recessional. That is a cannibal hymn and I've always despised the damned thing, but it has a kind of swing to it-a lyrical dignity. This hasn't even that...
...guess that when the President takes his forthcoming swing around the circle he'll set a pace, both mental and physical, that will wear everybody to a frazzle-everybody, that is, save the President...
Newscameramen in Toledo last week busily snapped pictures of smiling young ladies assuming graceful poses on a swing, a springboard, a seesaw. One view showed the swing's platform sagging under the weight of three girls. In another a seesaw was seen bending under the weight of a girl at each end. Another showed a girl poised near the tip of a bending springboard. The equipment came in for more attention than the posers because platform, seesaw and springboard were all made of glass. This flexible, resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey...
...best that he had played for two years. A onetime caddy who learned his game at 6, an assistant to famed James Braid at 14, Perry plays with a quick stroke which looks odd because he keeps his right hand under the club, uses a scythe-like swing. Among the absurd legends about him which he had to deny last week was one, invented by reporters who could think of nothing else to say, that he was lefthanded. Said Open Champion Perry: "The only thing I do with my left hand is to scratch my head...