Word: fling
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Restrained fling of a classicist...
...play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli was determined to acquit himself well. Fiercely he struggled against the onslaught of Jeritza, flung her from him as prescribed; but ah! too boisterous was the fling. Headlong went she, to land in the glass and metal of the footlights, spraining and cutting her wrist. She arose, the performance went on to its applauded end. Two days later, she appeared, as Thais with a bandage on her wrist. Her legs, the press announced, were black and blue...
...newspapers of the country have received the satire with attitudes varying from disgust to enthusiasm. The New London Times condemns it as "juvenile sophistication." while the Boston Advertiser hails it as a "wild rebel fling." But all opposition notwithstanding more copies of the H. B. S. number have been ordered than can be filled at present. Hence the new edition...
...Manhattan subway train, last week, some telephone girls sat together and giggled. They would bow their heads together over a newspaper, whisper for a moment, then fling themselves back, shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth. A man seated opposite eyed this performance. His face was at once sharp and bland; he had a wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache. Perhaps he knew that the girls were becoming hysterical because they had discovered in him a resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other...
Bull rights, once popular in the U. S., are moribund. The one available bull, swart Firpo, shares the destiny of the old grey mare. Last week, in Newark, one Charles Weinert, seasoned ring roue, was given his fling at the once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour...