Word: flings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took a second fling at matrimony, wed a girl of 18. Now he has two more children, aged 2 and 5. Asked last week by the Referee if she was happy, Mrs. Skeet, "with a look of almost reverence in her eyes," said: "He is the most wonderful man in the world." Asked what...
Since the advancement of Bill Tabler, veteran drum major, to the rank of drill master, concern has been felt throughout the University that the grand entrance of the band during the year's first intermission would be unheralded by the traditional crossbar fling...
This surprising state of affairs had its beginning last spring when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew...
Next day, with the story thoroughly deflated, Democratic pressagents had their fling. In their daily press release they accused the Republican National Committee of attempting to besmirch "the sterling character and unblemished reputation" of "one of the finest officers of the U. S. Army," directly accused the GOP publicity staff of concocting the whole story. As usual, though, the corrections never made the front pages, never caught up with the canard...
Greatly agitated by such general talk of misconduct, Chairman Brundage loudly deplored "this unpleasant affair," took a final fling at Mrs. Jarrett: "At the second [committee] meeting more than an hour was devoted to ascertaining the facts as to reports that Mrs. Jarrett, occupying a room with two young swimmers, could not be aroused by the team's physician and the ship's doctor...