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...supply of tea in France. Finally, to the gratification of Dewlip's best friend, Jelliwell, he goes back to an amicable relationship with Mrs. Jelliwell, for which he can scarcely be blamed, while the stenographer and Mr. Jelliwell, who have been misinforming each other, decide they will have a fling at the old game, and run out to be joined in holy wedlock...
...Digest Poll to predict income, but money few and distant stop In blue funk stop Rose, felt ill this morning, atmosphere too warm for long stay stop Tomorrow will wish for weather more coolish, proceed to Tigerville to eat curry with laymen stop Will arrive Cambridge midnight, son I Fling accompanies stop Must have $100, depend statement coming. (signed) H. Flung Huey...
...kiva the carriers drop their snakes into the arms of the grey priests and go back for more. Women run out into the square, sprinkle corn meal on the ground in a circle with radial lines extending in the six directions of Indian astronomy. They shrink back. The carriers fling their snakes into the circle. The snakes writhe one upon another, sometimes try to slip away. Suddenly several Hopi rush into the circle, fill their arms with snakes and run off, out of the village, over the plateau to fling the snakes far from them. Slowly they return...
...belief. He refused to turn his pulpit into a recruiting station. He combated War hysteria. His patriotic friends turned from him. He gave up his church, found a refuge in the pacifism of the Socialist party. He founded and edited a radical monthly (The World Tomorrow), had a heartbreaking fling at publishing a Labor daily, went on the staff of The Nation for a year...
...Baseball is a swell way to make a living," said Art (The Great) Shires, in an interview while putting on his clothes in the locker-room after a recent Braves victory, "but I intend to go to Law School as soon as I've had my fling at the game. I guarantee that I can make three times as much money and meet twice as many people by playing baseball for ten years than a man who goes to school immediately and begins to practice law for ten years...