Word: flings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long, and rigging the market for their own individual profits, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary-and let there be no dispute about it." From Baruch and Johnson, Senator Long progressed to targets closer home, President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley, winding up with a fling at Senate Leader Robinson: "I would sound another warning to the Senator from Arkansas. . . . Beware! Beware ! If things go on as they have been going on, you will not be here next year...
...took it to Producer Jed Harris. Producer Harris was busy with Uncle Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly piece and the Theatre Guild would have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving Mr. Stebbins of Wagner's "Wotan." There was some difficulty about getting a theatre. The première at the last minute was postponed four...
With the Mahatma and other Indian leaders silently bookworming through Lord Linlithgow's 350 pages last week, Indian editors, according to their mood, either admitted "we shall have to bear it" (Hindustan Times) or blazed "fling the Report back in the teeth of those having the audacity to offer it!" (Bombay Forward...
Most humble is this ignoble Sage of the Age who has felt it his most unworthy duty to leave country for last three weeks. Most grievous also am I that little I Fling had to be dragged along, but you never can tell about Fling...
Today M. André Citroën no longer has francs to fling. For some years now the flashy little maker of Citroën cars, with a lack of originality he once would have scorned, has been leasing the new features pioneered by Walter P. Chrysler. Chrysler "floating power" became in France "le moteur flottant" of Citroën. It helped, but not enough. This year, slipping perilously near to bankruptcy, M. Citroën struck out with a new car of his own which has made Paris sit up and stare. It has front wheel drive, "knee action...