Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Opera House, was so radical a departure from the usual George White tradition that it must be regarded as a bold attempt at pioneering. If Mr. White is lucky, his show will be the leader of a new trend, a trend back to musicality and romance, a swing of the pendulum back to the Gibson girl...
Last week the Princeton University Triangle Club took its 44th annual musi-comedy to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House before the usual holiday swing through the country. Those who had charge of this year's production. It's The Valet, appeared to have done a less sprightly job than many of their predecessors. It's The Valet is not very funny...
...famed copy of the London Times of June 22, 1815, carrying the first four-day-late hearsay story of the Battle of Waterloo. Stuck down at the foot of the page among a jumble of advertisements and personals, the story carries no headline. Significant of the current swing to the middle ground between the management trust of pre-Depression days, when no limitations were set upon the investment policy, and the fixed trust of last year, when investors paid as much as 10% as insurance against any management, were two restricted management trusts floated last week...
...Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told his jailer that since 1920 California's Senator Shortridge and Representative Swing had known he was an escaped convict. Because of his good record for 34 years President Hoover last week gave William Kirby Robinson an unconditional pardon...
...increase in men admitted under the New Plan is of such great proportions that it cannot be merely a seasonal fluctuation; it signifies a swing away from the older systems of admission to the more recent one termed New Plan. Evidently secondary schools which have long realized the merits of the New Plan of Admission are advising their students to use it in preference to the Old Plan, are making necessary preparation curricula in consequence...