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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 »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew it until policemen stopped the careering vehicle, arrested the caitiff flim-flammers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Manhattan, statistics have long been circulated showing a high percentage of criminals among cabmen. To the city's executive department, reports have come in concerning thugs, dips, flim-flams, louies, yeggs and fiddle-faced murderers who have posed as honest metre-men only to procure material upon which to indulge their vicious predilections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: What May Be | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Thugs, dips, flim-flams, louies, yeggs and fiddle-faced murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 8, 1925 | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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