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Word: flings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highland Fling" has its high and low spots which when considered together spell out only fair entertainment. A sort of dual plot provides the main themes for the play: the removal of the ancient Scottish Stone of Scone upon which the Scottish Kings were crowned, and the reformation of a reprobate Scotsman are intermingled to produce many comic and many not-so-comic situations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/14/1944 | See Source »

...Martha, a bid to the Broadway trade, looked and sounded more like musical comedy than opera. So did its star: dark-haired, convent-bred Ethel Barrymore Colt (daughter of Actress Ethel Barrymore and the late Russell Colt of Bristol, R.I.), who had arrived at opera after a fling at Broadway drama (L'Aiglon, Cradle Song) and the nightclub circuit (Spivy's Roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rhinestone Horseshoe | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Young, along with John Reed, Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, founded the leftist and pacifist Masses. When the U.S. got into World War I, his most famous cartoon, the savage Having Their Fling, helped put Art and colleagues on trial for sedition, a capital crime. For seven days & nights during that trial, Max Eastman could not sleep a wink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contempt of Court | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...Final Fling. Her bow had been blown off, but the remaining turrets were still blazing away. She was firing so fast that she was constantly lit up in the dark, "like liquid fire squirting from a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Battle Carriers | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...North Africa, the Nazis launched their Nebelwerfer (smoke thrower), a multibarreled, rocket-propelled mortar which U.S. and British troops dubbed "screaming meemie." Set off electrically, its rocket shells fling long fingers of metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buck Rogers Goes to War | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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