Word: flings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before leaving Manhattan, the President-Reject had taken leave of the electorate one more last time. People had wondered what he would say-whether he would appeal for funds to pay for the effort he had led;* whether he would have a last fling at "influences" which may have beaten him; whether it would be a personal swan-song or a parting battle-tucket to the Democracy...
...complete the conquest of China required some 20 months and pitted the Nationalist Generalissimo against the strongest armies and keenest brains which a coalition of Northern War Lords could fling against him in a Death struggle to retain their power. This part of Chiang's saga should be told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...other hand, what doth it profit a man if he ignores a piteous Lampoon to fling his wit to the night winds of Boston? And how regrettable the spectacle of him who forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still...
...were king-ah love, if I were king-What tributary nations would I bring To stoop before your sceptre and to swear Allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair, Beneath your feet what treasures I would fling-The stars should be your pearls upon a string, The world a ruby for your finger ring And you should have the sun and moon to wear If I were king...
...such, Generalissimo Chiang, a slender high strung Chinaman, was first to fling himself upon the glass topped Sun coffin, last week, and loudest to sob. He controlled himself only when raised up and embraced by the towering Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July...