Word: wield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrialists and wealthy men can wield a very great influence in the remolding of America's social and economic set-up. By helping the administration to the best of their abilities, they can prove their public spiritedness, and make the necessary readjustments quickly and efficiently. If they refuse to cooperate and appeal to the shades of Calvin Coolidge to keep the future away from their doors, they will arouse class antagonism and cause a serious rift in the community...
Some worn old tool of my own, Will be turned up by the plow, The wood of it changed to stone, But as ready to wield...
...Ferruccio Giannini, a tenor who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. At home the Gianninis made music all the time. The mother Antoinetta played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Vittorio played the piano. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made her debut at her father's little theatre. At 12, she sang Azucena in 77 Trovatore, a performance in which her father was supposed to be her son. Last week Ferruccio Giannini sat in a box at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
Both Winthrop and Dunster have engaged syncopating outfits of Jimmie Carmedy, but Jimmy himself will wield the baton at the Puritan frolic. Undaunted, the Dunster committee has announced that their orchestra will be under the direction of Karl Kunze...
...second time in thirty-five years, there is one ray of hope: that when the present militarism has run its logical course, the entire Fascist doctrine will be discarded for good and all. Sooner or later Europeans must learn that no one man is great enough to wield wisely the power that has been assumed by Mussolini and Hitler. Until bitter experience has taught this lesson, Europe can know neither peace nor progress...