Word: flings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week with stories of a snake that can fly. It is the rare, seldom captured Chrysopelea ornata of India and Malaya, a black snake with a yellow dot in the centre of each scale and a series of yellow, red centred "flowers" along the back. These snakes climb trees, fling themselves off and by extending their ribs and sucking in their bellies, create air pockets on which they glide safely to the ground...
...make what his entourage said would be the last great speech of his career-and incidentally the first one in which as President of France he would freely speak his mind. Ordinarily the President is supposed to be hyperneutral about everything, but he is allowed to have one final fling. Appropriately last week this fling was made in a gambling house, the famed Palais de la Méditerranée built at Nice by Frank Jay Gould of Paris and New York, dedicated to Opera, Art and Baccarat. Because the restaurant of the Palais is one of the best...
What the President proceeded to say was considered by far the boldest speech of his career. Like Calvin Coolidge who, in his last days as President, took a fling at the European nations who were (and still are) complaining for reduction of their debts, President Doumergue took a fling at Germany. But first he uttered some very suave remarks indeed...
...LOVE-Ben Hecht-Covici, Friede ($2.50). In this book Ben Hecht has created a character who may well cause many a reader to fling the book from him in too precipitate disgust. Coming to know people is not always a pleasant experience and Author Hecht's creature seems at first a repulsive caricature. But the caricature grows into a portrait, the creature into a personality who is as interesting as he is unpleasant. Many an author would give his eyeteeth to be able to approximate the Hechticvitality. Jo Boshere (real name: Abe Nussbaum) made a fortune on the stock...
Carefully Briton Brailsford described the system of parallel government in Bombay, whereby members of the Indian National Congress themselves marshal and police their demonstrations. He reported that the Gandhiwomen who picket shops selling British goods, and who fling themselves down to be trodden on by any Indian determined to enter, will stand aside for occidental shoppers. "The shopkeepers themselves signed a requisition to the effect that they made no complaint against this peaceful picketing, and for a time there were few arrests...