Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senators qualify for such a title. The other representatives, judges, comptrollers, etc., important though they may be in the discharge of Democracy's functions, are merely part of the ticket and make the ballot look like part of the telephone directory. The Standard Bearers have no flags to wave, but their party gives them a "plat- form" ingeniously constructed of sagging, soft "planks." For at least a month the Standard Bearers are supposed to do a graceful jig on these planks. Then comes election day, and the panting dancers are either governors and senators, or lame ducks...
...Symphony Orchestra will have to rise to a defense. The baten of Mr. Koussevitzky will wave overtime in rehearsals. The notes of his orchestra will march bravely out to meet the oncoming horde of Mr. Jacchia's invaders. It will be a battle to the finish, with the end of the season finding the musicians looking more like soldiers returned from a strenuous campaign than the well-fed members of refined and select orchestras...
...unattractive. One could not mind having her about the house. The aged Jean Jacques was not such a fool, after all. And no one can dislike hearing a man go singing to his death when one is sure he will return. The colonel had to return, if only to wave his handkerchief. By the way, devotees of the Metropolitan should see the uniform on--was he a captain? That alone is worth, sacre bleu, twelve thousand francs of my uncle's money
...will bring. But over and beyond such legitimate projects, the country is witnessing the building of scores of hotels in cities where no actual proof can be offered that the need for new hotels exists. These haphazard, over optimistic projects are the froth on the top of our present wave of prosperity. They are a menace...
...scaled the snow-capped and hurricane swept Tateyama, one of the most dangerous and forbidding mountains in southern Japan. This youth of 24 who dropped in upon President Doumergue last week on his way to a winter of study at Oxford has indeed been chiefly responsible for the wave of interest in skiing and alpine climbing, now spreading over young Japan. Meanwhile those familiar with modern Nippon recalled that all the princes of the present ruling house are remarkable for their athletic prowess...