Word: flinging
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...have passed, Harvard will discover that exactly two and five-eighths days have been added to the average fall practice by the new starting date rule. At the present time, these inoffensive two and five-eights days are calling University presidents and sports editors to battle, causing them to fling weighty arguments in praise or damnation...
Less than one inch of rain had fallen during the past 100 days, and the drought was said to be costing United Kingdom farmers last week $2,500,000 per day. With the grass shortage forcing British farmers to fling unseasonably large flocks of sheep on the Home market, thus threatening to break the price, Conservative Robert Hugh Turton begged His Majesty's Government to "keep overseas sheep off the market...
...that of Philadelphia's blonde, blue-eyed, Yankee-born Hilda Emery Davis, who in private life is the wife of Danceband-Leader Meyer Davis. Forty-two-year-old Mrs. Davis, having been a professional pianist at the age of 10, having mothered five children, and taken a fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother...
...shiny seat of British statesmanship, has its fun at the expense of bench & bar, gives a friendly, honest picture of Scottish life. That the story is as purely Scottish as haggis or brose is the doing of Playwright Tames Bridie, who a year ago took a Highland fling at Bruno Frank's German Sturm im Wasserglas, turned it into a Barrie-like play...
...family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army in 1917, barely 25 miles from his birthplace he was arrested for the third time because a deputy sheriff was suspicious...