Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical line, Messrs Gordon and Ravel score in a small way with "Swing Is Here To Stay" and "I've Got My Heart Set on You." Raymond Scott and his quintet beat out "Twilight in Turkey" with intestinal fortitude in spite of two sinuous dancing girls who hardly do the tune justice...
...allowed me to make a feature of my curves, since, apparently, I couldn't avoid having them. . . . King Edward induced me to try to play golf. . . . But after a few trials I found my arm too short and my bust too big for me to develop the proper swing, I decided God hadn't built me the right shape for action on a golf course, and I gave...
Cleveland. Reform Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton was embarrassed when his Democratic opponent, Engineer John O. McWilliams, accused him of collecting a "slush fund" to swing votes in tough wards. The Board of Elections, investigating, found that Mayor Burton had spent $12,860 more than he had reported, bringing his total to $41,212. Cried Engineer McWilliams, who reported an expenditure of $4,700: "The Mayor is carriying deception and falsification even into his campaign." Mayor Burton's campaign treasurer explained that he had borrowed and supplied the $12,860 personally. Betting odds continued to favor Mayor Burton...
What epidemiologists expected ever since the Japanese began to bombard China's big cities-disrupting sanitary systems, interrupting food supplies and turning the cities into armed camps filled with large concentrations of men-by last week was in full swing. Plagues were everywhere rampant, particularly cholera. This cause of black vomit & death was dropping 100 a day in Shanghai's International Settlement alone...
...Buffalo. N. Y., Big Frank, elephant at the city zoo, was given a birthday party: with one swing of his trunk he engulfed a frosted birthday cake, packed it down with 50 Ibs. of hay. carrots, beets, as a special postprandial treat was permitted to chew