Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cambridge is proud of its new electric buses that run along the streets, using the trolley wires. They were tried out a few months ago and have worked successfully. Their advantage is that they swing over to the side of the street, to make a stop, and let the trafic pass...
There hangs a strong, well guarded swing...
...Swing Time (RKO) is the sixth item in that series of exhibitions of sublimated hoofing which have made the team of Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire currently the No. 1 cinema attraction of the world. It contains: three major routines by Rogers & Astaire, one by Astaire alone in blackface; six songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields of which at least two, The Way You Look Tonight and A Fine Romance, are likely to be hits; a story in which Astaire, as a dancer, and Rogers, as a dance teacher, are united after financial and emotional vicissitudes contributed mainly...
...Greeley Abbot. Said he: "The North Central States can expect no appreciable letup in the Drought before 1938. A rain cycle is indicated by records of the water levels of the Great Lakes since 1837. . . . The cycle in the North Central farming and grazing zone has a 46-year swing, which is double the cycle for most areas on the globe. After this Drought there should not be another major dry period in the area until somewhere around...
...school girl who spent every spare moment at the airport, eventually bought a Curtiss JN4D ("Jenny"). A onetime Army officer named Vernon C. Omlie taught her to fly it. Year later, after he had also taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes at the National...