Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blatant electioneering swing around Ontario that made him its first Liberal Premier in 30 years, grinning, bumptious, New-Dealing Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn bawled at farmers in the back concessions: "You have had to put up with Conservative tea-sippers and cookie-pushers! Men who couldn't run the Province of Ontario except from flashy motor cars paid for with your money! By Jupiter, when I'm Premier I'll ride to the opening of the Legislature of Ontario on a bicycle!" (TIME, July 2). Last week the people's "Mitch" in spats, cutaway...
Ordinarily not a sanguinary sport, fencing scored its first surgery of the year on its swing southward last weekend, when the Varsity team met Columbia, the Navy, and the New York Fencers' Club. Six-foot-one Dick Ford was exchanging ripostes and flesches with Potter of Columbia when Ford's epee snapped off into a jagged edge. Potter's lunge spitted him on the remaining blade, with the net result that six stitches has to be taken below the ribs...
...rotate three lines and still be able to throw in Dewey and Duffey as relief. It has been this fast turnover with constant rest periods that has allowed Stubbs to develop his furious attack. Hockey is the fastest game on the rolls and a large supply of replacements will swing the scoring in almost every case...
...material, such an accident to one of the regulars is little less than tragic, and no adequate solution has yet been found. Both By Moser and Jack Mason, regulars on last year's Freshman quintet, have been working out at the right forward position, trying to get in the swing, but the punch of the former combination is still lacking...
...Hearst's Washington Herald, work up to his Universal Service. Plausible and pontifical, he is equally adept at slapping Congressmen on the back or awing them with suave dinners at the Metropolitan Club. Nominally a newshawk, he resigned temporarily from the Congressional Press Galleries in 1932 to swing around the country coaxing antiWorld Court commitments from Congressional candidates, lately resigned again to head the latest Hearst offensive against the Court...