Word: flings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is a pleasant little fraud. A trumped-up anecdote of King Charles II's gay undernourishment in continental garrets, it is designed chiefly to purvey the Tarzantics of Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. But The Exile is also Young Doug's first fling as a producer, and he has concealed most of the fraud with both legitimate and handsome cinematic tricks...
...their second fling at fortune, the 23-year-olds picked the "Big Limit" wheel at Harold's Club, the country's biggest gambling joint. One day last week, after studying the wheel's habits for two weeks, they put $2 on No. 9. By the time they had parlayed it to $7,000, they were betting $19 a spin. Then luck turned...
...League colleges shows that where strict parietal rules exist for fraternities, deans have seen fit not to enforce them. Other schools have Student Union buildings which provide undergraduates a place in which to talk, and dance, away from the bustle of headwaiters and local citizenry out for a noisy fling...
...Rabinsohn. Estimates vary anywhere from 51 to 58 years (the Rumanian Legation in the U.S. cautiously states that she is "in her early 50s"). More certain is the number of years she has spent in exile or "underground" (15) or in jail (6). For Ana, after a fling at teaching school and studying medicine, turned to the precarious business of Balkan politics...
...both Yard and House dances were sellouts. Again; when the Union scheduled a dance on the Princeton weekend, the inter-House Committee made similar protests. They asked the Union to switch its dance to the Brown weekend, so that the Houses would be certain of a profitable "Final Fling." The Union declined, and for the second time, a bumper crop packed all the dance-floors...