Word: boomerangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terming the extension of this movement as "a panacea looking well on paper, but acting as a boomerang in practice," a negative accused the "gentlemen of Harvard" of viewing the subject unrealistically...
...illusions over the difficulties which lie in the path of such a policy. Its early stages depend on favorable H. A. A. budgets; its later stages depend on the active cooperation of alumni. But even an adequate fund will prove a useless boomerang if Harvard's traditional competitors, Yale and Princeton, fail to attack the vicious circle...
...BOOMERANG CLUE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Few constables and no Scotland Yard men mar the course of detecting by young Bobby and his girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final...
...thought this was pretty swell, a sure boomerang in fact, until we received the following reply yesterday...
...Boomerang & Blackjack...