Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supporters of the Republican Party at Harvard have organized a Republican Club which will swing into action early in the autumn, it was made known last night by Richard Hiller Amberg '33, of New York City, inaugural president of the organization...
...continued to think for themselves and to vote according to their thoughts. They were not stampeded toward the political Right by scare stories that beloved old President Doumer had been done to death by a "regular Bolshevik." The second ballot took the same course as the first, a steady swing not to either extreme but from the Right Centre to Left Centre...
Droning off into the murky clouds above Lakehurst one morning last week, U. S. S. Akron left for a long, half-moon swing down through the Deep South and out to join the Fleet in the Pacific. As sound and airworthy as before her mishap last February, the Akron carried 81 persons on her second shakedown cruise, her first continental crossing. Lieut. Commander Rosendahl, covering the trip for the Press, reported the off watches "in their bunks, passing Mother's Day quietly indeed...
...Buck's second, The Good Earth, has taken the public's fancy to the tune of 22 printings, has recently been dramatized by Owen Davis & Son Donald, will be presented by the Theater Guild next autumn. A good tale, though of lesser scope, The Young Revolutionist, depicting Chinese idealism swing Christ-wards, will be many a missionary's meat. Mrs. Buck's Virginia parents, named Sydenstricker, were missionaries. She was born in China. Her husband heads Nanking University's farm management department. She well knows the importance of food in China. Once she saw her mother stave off a massacre...
...film), a German talkie with English subtitles, was directed by E. A. Dupont, who made Variety. His penchant for oblique photography is appropriate for aerial acrobatics like the trick called "Salto Mortale," which the three principal personages in this picture perform at frequent intervals. "Salto Mortale" is a giant swing on a revolving platform followed by a jump to a trapeze that has to be released by a ground-lever at exactly the right moment. It is performed by Marina (Anna Sten) and Jim (Reinhold Bernt), an arrogant animal-feeder who volunteers for the act to show Marina how good...