Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physiological function is as an aperitif, an appetizer, to a palate which perhaps is jaded; therefore its composition must be such as to give a fillip to the appetite, it must be piquant, to generate hunger...
...penny-in-the-slot machine, tries to work it, throws good money after bad. In increasing frenzy he dissipates all his ill-gotten gains on the infernal machine. Hero, after misadventures, tracks him down. From this point the plot thickens, twists, jumps like a rubber band. Its final fillip knocks Villain on the chin, Hero and Heroine into each other's arms. In a few minutes you have seen, with many a thrill, many a laugh, nary a tear, Life's panorama sweep...
Paris police gave a fillip to the Fall Openings by raiding a small apartment, arresting two U. S. women: Caroline Davis, 38, of East Orange, N. J. and Ida Helen Oliver, 40, of Parnassus, Pa. The crime of which Misses Davis and Oliver were accused was that of copying the copyrighted designs of Parisian couturiers, bootlegging them to U. S. buyers and bargain-hunting Frenchwomen...
...final fillip to the campaign was the discovery by Dickinson supporters that the University of Iowa had sent to 20,000 high-school pupils throughout the State an intelligence test which included for grammatical correction the following sentence...