Word: flings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stopping here on way to Cambridge for football forecasts, my son, I. Fling, and I find series business afoot. It seems now that the Tigers have burnt their Bridges behind them and will have to Rowe home. It was a Greenberg up here today when that game the Cardinals was Owen the Tigers was finished. There a Foxy team from Missouri and a Frisch group all right. I say, how can Tigers win when Cards are stacked against them. This fella Dean, he real clever, but not too clever for Sage of the Age, who decrees...
...flawless. Then indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have a fling at Hollywood, build the sets for the London production of Waltzes from Vienna. He also did the sets for Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's new cinema, Crime Without Passion...
Franklin D. Roosevelt had his fling at Haitian affairs when, as a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he had "something to do" with writing the constitution of 1918. When he became President, he resolved to take the U.S. out of Haiti. Last year he put through a treaty agreeing to get the Marines out of the Garde d'Haiti by Oct. 1 this year. Last April Haiti's cream-colored, egg-shaped President Stenio Vincent called on the U.S. and, between sales talks for Haitian rum and an $11,000,000 refunding loan, got President Roosevelt...
...late every star is destined to burst forth as a supernova. If they are right the old concept of the end of the world?life freezing to death under a cooling sun? must give way to the prospect of life scorched to death by a sun having its final fling before joining the stellar ghosts in the cosmic graveyard...
...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...