Word: fling
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...Harvard CRIMSON to indulge in that uncharitable fling at East Boston, in emphasizing a point with reference to Harvard university's domestic affliction. It is true East Boston is a community made up in the main of working people; many of whom own their own little homes, and from whence has come many a good Harvard man. Our esteemed young friend might be better engaged than casting slurs on a good neighbor and friend. --East Boston Argus-Advocate...
Visions of the Center College eleven of 1921, mixed in with last minute dashes to the Widow's and unfortunate upsets of tea cups at Quincy Street receptions easily suggest themselves to the morbid mind. Too, there is always the chance that the Park Row hack had his fling at Radcliffe romance in his Cambridge days. Perhaps, if Mr. Heywood Broun were still connected with The World, there might have been a hidden, very hidden reference to the language requirements...
...Fling book and pencil with a wild desire...
There was also a last fling at "influences" as follows: "Party responsibility is not confined to its handling of governmental affairs. A political party must also be accountable to the people of the United States for the management of its internal affairs, and no political party can afford to accept the support of forces for which it refuses to accept responsibility...
Before leaving Manhattan, the President-Reject had taken leave of the electorate one more last time. People had wondered what he would say-whether he would appeal for funds to pay for the effort he had led;* whether he would have a last fling at "influences" which may have beaten him; whether it would be a personal swan-song or a parting battle-tucket to the Democracy...