Word: flinging
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...with $22 in his jeans. He learned to sleep with a diamond-tipped oil drill locked around his neck, and eventually hit the jackpot. He now owns more oil wells than he has time to count, has spent up to $3,800 on a single evening's fling, smokes two dozen $1.50 cigars daily...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...Boss Takes a Fling...
...Last Fling. In Philadelphia, where they infested the parks, diseased pigeons that had been scheduled for extermination were granted a three-month stay of execution...
...throne were men of western ideas, like astute Prince Saionji, who promoted a Japanese version of parliamentarianism and constitutional monarchy. In 1921, with their support, Crown Prince Hirohito decided to go abroad. Never before had an imperial Heir Apparent left the Land of the Gods. Shinto jingoists threatened to fling themselves in fanatic immolation under the train that bore the Crown Prince to his ship. But Hirohito was not deterred, and this 20th Century form of hara-kiri did not take place...