Word: flinging
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...Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that she is in the funny papers, and adapts her dynamic portrait of Harold's high-school sweetheart, Lillums, accordingly. The high-school girls are like those in this particular version of secondary school life, we shall seriously consider abandoning Harvard for another fling at life among the lower schools...
...Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen of the Pres- (1928) were Broadway successes which paved his way to the role of a bemused cinema director in Once...
...Vagabond has not stirred much abroad of late, but sits in close-striving study over Kant's "Ethics," and for relaxation counts the number of students taking History 1 in the New Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters...
...been swept away. To get to Europe and back here I had to sell my last pearl studs. . . . I have wealthy friends here. I used to play polo with Tommy Hitchcock. . . . But I do not want money from them. If they should offer to lend me money I would fling it in their faces...
...Eternal Father who hast begirt us round with loving care, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, and has committed to us rules of reason as holy messengers of Thine: Forgive our foolish ways, capture our truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...