Word: flings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's World's Fair John J. Raskob, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, wagered $20 against Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith's dime that she would not take a fling at the parachute jump with...
...public library, he decided to study art. After four years of cast-copying and life classes, he got a scholarship at Manhattan's Art Students' League, where he studied under oldtime U. S. Realist John Sloan, Pundits Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. After a fling at commercial art (he once designed advertisements for Pluto Water), he was drafted into the A. E. F. and sent to France, where he drew maps for the Intelligence Corps, spent his spare time wandering through the galleries of Paris. His first sizable chance to develop his own style of painting came...
...shouting: "The Germans are coming!" In panic, the Royal Government of Norway again took flight, to Elverum higher up in the mountains, then to Nybergsund. Nazi planes, spewing slugs and incendiary bombs, followed wherever they went, razed these villages. Once the King had to hide in the woods, fling himself into the snow, as a killer pilot dived so low it seemed he recognized royal quarry...
Prophet Smoot's bleak words were timely because in Washington last week Congress unlaced its economy corset, began to fling about the taxpayers' money. Fired by the Senate's prodigal example in upping the farm bill to a juicy billion dollars (TIME, March 18), the House set upon the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, upped...
When the scripting team of Gene Towne and Graham Baker announced that it would film Swiss Family Robinson as its first fling at producing, story-starved Hollywood gasped with admiration, wondered why Johann Rudolf Wyss's century-old best-seller had been overlooked so long. The wonder has abated. Even versatile Gene Towne is hard put to it to make the uneventful life of Eden entertaining for 93 minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally...