Word: boomerang
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...Millerandian boomerang...
...Boomerang. At the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in Manhattan a month ago (TIME, May 5), President Harding launched what seemed a harmless little trial balloon. Now President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University has turned that balloon into a boomerang...
...this the President is to be congratulated: he is apparently not afraid to speak out when be thinks it necessary. He is the first Chief Executive since the beginning of the century who has cared to speak definitely on a subject which is as liable to prove a boomerang as a bomb...
...them inadvertently through the carelessness or constant repetition of a thoughtless quarterback, he never gives them to his own team. As a matter of fact and pride from a question of sportsmanship, signals are changeable even in the course of a game and information about them may be a boomerang...
...flying in celebration of the Pilgrim Tercentenary, be furled, made a grave mistake. While such an act cannot possibly hurt England, or England's honor, it may, however, easily bring harm to the Irish themselves. Such a demonstration of mob violence is only too likely to prove a boomerang. A people which loses its head and charges at an unprovocative flag like a bull in the arena, is not apt to be considered in the eyes of the rest of the world, as fit to have its freedom. Besides, if the Irish were whole-hearted in their cause, working earnestly...