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...blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul...
Delighted by his first fling at moviemaking, British Poet T. S. Eliot modestly said of the screen adaptation of his play Murder in the Cathedral: "I should not regret the experience even were the film which has resulted not the masterpiece which I believe...
...only method of securing work is through good personal contacts in a specialized field, and even then the chances are slim. The student-sponsored work camps will give anyone a nice clean conscience and a wealth of ruddy friends, although their financial remunerations barely cover a short fling at the local bistro...
Fortunately. News of England (1938), Beverley's proletarian polemic, was his last causal fling. While other Britons dug trenches in the parks and queued for gas masks, he turned to creating something that would "defend . . . small and beautiful things against ... the mass ugliness and beastliness of the herd." His labors resulted in a domed, floodlit hothouse, planned to resemble "a gigantic reproduction of one of Queen Mary's hats...
Ingalls took a fling at the Ohio governorship in 1932 (he lost), worked his way up in Ohio GOPolitics to state chairman and national committeeman. In 1940 he slaved to get Cousin Bob Taft nominated for the presidency (says he of Taft's defeat by Willkie: "It just happened...