Word: flim-flams
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...that a propaganda bureau was being prepared, and that short-wave broadcasters would be required to take dictation, or else. Enough young men around Washington talked like fools to give point to this suspicion. Already stirred up (for other reasons) against FCC, the industry felt that any plan to flim-flam its short-wave audience -built up by years of honest news reporting-should be fought at a hat's drop...
...Flim-Flam? Indications were that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin may advise His Majesty to spring the election even sooner than has been expected, perhaps on Nov. 14. In this connection astute "Augur" (Vladimir Poliakoff), a correspondent close to Mr. Baldwin, cabled with remarkable candor...
...curious merry games his father used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam and the cata-maran." Through all his life, with the weakness of one whose childhood has been too happy, he found no other companions whom he loved so well as these. At the time of his death he was separated from his wife, his two children...