Word: flings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidacy for President got him nowhere. Last week with the recklessness of 70 years he decided to change his tactics, to step out, not as a full strength beverage, but as a sort of 3.2% candidate. Surely after so many near-attempts, he was entitled to have one final fling at intoxicating the public...
...Latin and mathematics. Once some progressive educators were urging him to teach the boys to use their hands, specifically to put in a course in milking. "Why," demanded Mr. Taft. "should we teach them to do something which any calf can do better?" Last week he had a fling at the College Entrance Examination Board, currently tinkering feverishly with its tests in an effort to please progressive teachers. "You would think," observed the old headmaster, ''that it had St. Vitus's dance...
...give up. There is no fish bigger than a big whale. Have your little fling in the public eye, Professor Owen, and then retire to your naval architecture, where, it is removed, you are sound, intelligent, expert, eminent, full baked...
...bicycle, it would seem, is back to stay. Encouraged by the example of certain irreproachable members of the Faculty and the clever advertisements of a local renting agency, Cantabridgians have given' the ancient two-wheeled, leather-saddled mode of transportation a fling which has developed carmarks of permanency. The vast numbers of bare-kneed girls, uncoated college students, and towsic-headed youngsters who cycle daily render the pleasure of wheeling an unquestionable quantity. The one great question which perplexes the minds of prospective cyclists is a place to cycle...
When the German Foreign Office loudly announced at Berlin that their London Embassy was making "the sharpest protest," Mr. Churchill was on the electioneering stump having another fling at Adolf Hitler. Soon in British Government circles the word passed that if the Realmleader was really aroused it would be impossible, all because of a potboiler, to give Mr. Churchill the Cabinet plum he has been promised...