Word: boomeranging
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...should not be awarded their letters? Is his criterion of merit not sincere effort, but accidental result? Would he give recognition only to those who are favored by chance, and stamp out of existence those who are less fortunate? His meaningless allusion to Prussianism might easily be made a boomerang...
...psychology of the authors of the red parody is somewhat unusual. Its brilliant color made it sell like wild fire; red magazines were sticking out of everybody's pockets on Wednesday afternoon. But the attempted blow proved a boomerang. For every copy of the parody sold,--the figure is said to approach 1,500,--a copy of the real magazine was also sold. The satirists gave the true paper the best possible free advertising and undoubtedly doubled if not trebled the circulation of the first number...
...Astor; Geraldine Farrar in "Carmen," at the Strand; "Young America," at the Gaiety; "Miss Information," at George M. Cohan's; "Around the Map," at the New Amsterdam; William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes," at the Empire; "Rolling Stones," at the Harris; Lillian Russell at B. F. Keith's; "The Boomerang," at the Belasco; "The Battle Cry of Peace," at the Vitagraph; and "Town Topics," at the Century. Members of the University football and association football teams will attend the latter performance, for which tickets may be had at the H. A. A. Office...
...that the subjects which are now put down in the school curriculum as essentials, are, in fact, luxuries. And no less an authority than the London Athenaeum declares that compulsory Greek in the schools is doomed. The argument from the English school system, therefore, is likely to prove a boomerang in the hands of the classicists...
...becoming very evident that the recent brilliant boycotting and bulldozing expedition of a certain Cambridge tradesman undertaken against the students of Harvard, as represented by the Co-operative Society, has become metamorphosed into a very troublesome boomerang. The Co-operative Society could not wish for better fortune than to be thus assailed. It has now become a matter of honor with every Harvard student to lend the society his heartiest support in opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard...