Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither radical nor socialist in any proper sense of either word, M. Herriot's party might be called "Liberal," has long been tantalizingly close to power. A swing in the French electorate is generally slow, but all M. Herriot needed was that the mass of voters should swing last week slightly to the Left-just far enough to upset Premier Tardieu's Right-Centre coalition and make it possible for Mayor Herriot to get together a Left-Centre coalition with himself as Premier. Experts agreed that a swing of only 40 seats to Right or Left...
Alfredo Codona, world's No. 1 trapezist since the death of Lillian Leitzel (his wife). Slight Gymnast Codona does swings, turns, somersaults with perfect timing, nonchalantly dives into the net when something goes wrong. Only aerialist in the world able to do a triple somersault from one trapeze to the hands of an assistant, he accomplishes this feat sometimes, at other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore...
...cutest little swing...
...left by the Sales Tax. Leaders of the late insurgency fell over themselves to pledge support to this substitute program. United by the Garner speech and perhaps a little mortified at its earlier behavior, the House buckled down and adopted that program before the lobbies of interested industries could swing into action...
Born in Upper Bavaria in 1878, he has first-memories of the views from his bedroom window, from the frame of which swung a large bead of clear blue glass. "I could swing it from side to side as I pleased, quickly in short jerks or slowly and largely, and its motion seemed always to have a mysterious correspondence with whatever I desired and undertook." Whenever, across the street, the pageant of a funeral procession wound its way up to the cemetery on the hill, with incense burning, bells ringing, people singing and wailing, the child was filled with glee...