Word: boomerang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children. The laudable, or lamentable tendencies of Labrador missionaries in the past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances are he will be so much in love that, unable to eat, sleep, or drink, he will be able to do nothing but wander aimlessly around the quadrangle gazing at the moon and composing sentimental...
Ruth Shepley plays the sweet girl whom Slippery marries; and theatre-goers with good memories recall The Boomerang wherein Ruth Shepley played another such, spraining her ankle nightly for the furtherance of romance...
...boomerang plane Marszalek Pilsudski scorned safety. The Poles anticipated nothing but success.* They relied on a single motor and carried no radio equipment...
...Americanism;" "The Moral Leper;" "The Devil's Boomerang" (for men only); "Chickens Come Home to Roost" (for men only); "What Shall the End Be?;" "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack" (anti-evolution...
...Boomerang, Tea for Three. During the past year he has been on the road with his daughter, Kate, who makes her Manhattan debut in this play, in order to give her more experience...