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Word: flings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, one Otto Prignitz, 58, a scarfaced, monocled German architect, received orders to report in the Fatherland for duty as an aviation instructor. From the German Consulate he got money for his passage via Siberia. Last week he went to Harlem for one last fling before returning to the land of Aryans. When it was over he found he had lost $117. He got a policeman to arrest his party companion, a Negro lady named Miss Reno Jones. In court, the judge told Otto Prignitz he must wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Homeseekers | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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