Word: flings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Creston's worried parents scouted around, found that the grownups of Eldora, Wapello, Clinton, Columbus Junction and other Iowa towns had met the menace by offering an annual community-sponsored all-night fling. Last week Creston tried the same remedy. Druggist Rex L. Mitchell sparked the party, got 33 local organizations to cooperate. The junior and senior classes approved the plans, added stipulations: 1) no teachers allowed after the prom, 2) other adults could serve food and drive the cars but were in no way to act like chaperons. The kids picked a name for the fling: "Crestubilee...
...catches his boss (Herbert Lom) running out with embezzled company money. In the scuffle, the employer is accidentally killed, and the bookkeeper, tempted by the financial windfall, runs off to Paris with the funds. There he takes up with a shady lady (Marta Toren) and has his one big fling before the police close...
...have no quarrel with many of the Weekend's events. Crew races, band concerts, and House dances are good entertainment, when taken separately. But they lose their individuality in a three-day fun fling topped off by a bathing beauty contest...
Highland's Fling...
Were Sophocles to croon this chorus (from Antigone*) below the boudoir of Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, she would very likely fling wide her French window and bomb him with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...