Word: flings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soldiers come cheap in South America. Patched up freight boats will do as warships. Even so, three Class A South American States were beggaring their treasuries last week to fling fleets of battle planes, flotillas of war craft and whole armies of eager young troops upon Leticia, a humid jungle town just under the Equator and 2,500 mi. up the world's biggest river, turgid Mother Amazon who oozes along about as fast as most women walk...
...most of its aspects the effervescence of adolescent enthusiasm fills a vital need in this mundane world. The picture of several hundred close-cropped heads milling around a few precious yards of painted wood assures the amused alumnus in double Q that youth has not lost its vigorous fling for modified mayhem. But the Subway riots during the hockey season call forth from administrators and the press sharp distinctions between energetic fun and the disregard for the property and personal rights of non-combatants...
Little 1. Fling Huey will be cating bulldog mincemeat with chopsticks made out of the despicable Yale goalposts before two hundred more bandits are killed in Manchuria. It is no bull to say that the bulldog will have his day as the underdog tomorrow. Harvard 14 Yale 7 Brown 14 Colgate 6 Notre Dame 20 Navy 0 Stanford 21 California...
...riots in London. France has swung from Right to Left while Germany amid civil blood & thunder was swinging in the other direction. A revolution turned Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam has ceased to be the world's last absolute monarch. Of all great foreign powers only the Russian Soviets and the Italian Fascists have not had upheavals and overturns...
...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...