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Word: flim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sulphurous Ghost | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...reputable correspondent to cable openly from London that His Majesty's Government are engaged in flim-flamming the British public with a Geneva sideshow which the Government already consider a failure, was enough to make all right-thinking Anglo-Saxons hope fervently that "Augur" may be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sulphurous Ghost | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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