Word: boomerangers
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...Vulgar insults and apologies of crime must be repressed not only when they explode criminally in the streets or public squares but also in journalistic haunts during the preparatory phase of crime. Moreover, these calumnies have the flat crooked form of the boomerang, and, like that Australian weapon, finish sooner or later by returning of their own force to the feet of those who hurled them...
...Boomerang. "He has shown us the art of giving." At a celebration tendered to Dr. S. Parkes Cadman on the 25th anniversary of his pastorate, at the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, Trustee Frederick W. Rowe said these words and extended a check for $25,000, a personal gift from every family in the Church to their pastor and his wife. For the term 1924-28, Dr. Cadman is President of the Federal Council of Churches, succeeding Dr. Robert E. Speer...
...Shemokin they always called me Big Hearted Joe). In fact I gave the coaches a play which, if used, would insure Harvard a sweeping victory in every game. And what did they do with it? They laughed at it just as a year ago they laughed at my boomerang pass which came back into the passer's arms, completely mystifying the opposition...
...WILD DUCK?One of Henrik Ibsen's grim contributions to the world's progress. Proves that idealism is a brutal boomerang...
...sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly turning itself into a boomerang. Mr. Coolidge has met a decisive test in a crucial political year. He has proved beyond doubt his courage, sincerity, and common sense. With Andrew Mellon; his stand is based on fact and national expediency, not on a lack of economic knowledge and an unhealthy desire merely to oppose. Intelligent...