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...away with first-degree malice as well as Perelman: "I drew a deep breath, brushed a small, many-legged Arab off my sleeves and went down to unpack." Most of the other lines, though, could have been written for Groucho Marx and perhaps were: "I was tempted to fling him a lakh of rupees with a princely gesture. Not knowing how many ru pees there were to a lakh, though, I had to content myself with the princely gesture...
...grand way to get rid of hostilities and envelop that august body in a meringuey camaraderie. I think it would raise public esteem for our legislators as well-they would get most of the foolishness, pomposity, orneriness, pettiness and childishness out of their systems in one brisk fling...
...final fling of the winter season, the crystal Rock looks to the NCAA hockey consolations and finals this evening...
...anything new about the Irish. That may be why so many writers, most of them Irish, keep on trying. English oppression long ago turned the Irish into sophisticated connoisseurs of futility. Trained to revere heroic martyrs, it is hard for them to resist certain vainglorious failure: another fling at explaining their inexplicable countrymen...
...Brandeis offense was not quite as cohesive, as it entered the second half with a "fling the ball toward the hoop" philosophy. The persistent 'Cliffe squad simply withstood Brandeis's target practice and converted the wild a shots into rebounds and easy fast-break baskets...