Word: boomerang
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...Boomerang. In booming Bridgeport, Conn., Federal Bankruptcy Court was scheduled to close at year's end, for lack of business...
...Metropolitan Opera Company's Manager Edward Johnson, planned to form a government with himself as Premier, may be forced to enlist straggling Liberals. Ready to step aside was Premier Harry C. Nixon, whose campaign testimonial, "Come what may, I am behind Mackenzie King," proved a boomerang...
Certainly the market will boomerang one of these days . . . but not until the buying power of potential security purchasers is completely exhausted. And with the backlash will come a paring of prices that will shear off points from the blue chips as well as the canine variety...
Hitler's New Order was put to the vote in occupied Denmark last week. For reasons best known to themselves, the Germans permitted the Danes to hold parliamentary elections. The result was the biggest vote in Danish history and a smashing rebuke to the Nazi overlords-a boomerang to the Germans, who, also for reasons of their own, had taken care to advertise the elections to the world...
Monty Wooley is funny because he throws rocks at little children; Dorothy Parker is funny because she didn't go to Vassar; but Bob Hope is funny because everything he says or does or thinks turns out to be a boomerang, with him at the gag end. In Sam Goldwyn's latest celluloid, Hope has Leonard (Flyman Keplan) Ross' script to play with, and it turns out to be much more spontaneous any of the slightly forced travelogue series...