Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, to prove that his was no one-groove arm, he broke the ten-year-old intercollegiate record for the discus throw with a flip of 167 ft. 4⅜ in., less than seven feet under the world's record set by Germany's Willi Schroeder five years...
Away from telephones, snow, gloom, pressure, rumors and Term III, Franklin Roosevelt could take off his coat, sit in the sun, nap, read a murder mystery, flip cigarets into the blue Gulf waters-perhaps smile at the revival of the 1939 rumor* that he would meet heads of European Governments in midocean, there settle the world's hash. Last week he could have killed the rumor with a wink or a lifted eyebrow...
...white friends, students, sharecroppers, a few "youths" with bald or greying heads) were dog-tired. All day they had seen sights, visited Congressmen, argued, walked up & down with rhyming placards: "Heed the Voice of 21,000,000: Keep the C. C. C. Civilian!" "Scholarships not Battleships!" "Dies is FLIP-PITY about Civil LIBERTY...
Barrymore's burlesque of himself proved more bumpy than bumptious, his ad libs flabbier than flip. But he did let go a few Royal Family burps, and enough offside lines to indicate that this Jerry Horwin-Catherine Turney farce might yet be "good theatre," with old John really strutting his stuff...
Yankee Doodle Boy hits pretty hard at Cohan's early days when, as a flip, conceited kid playing in vaudeville, he high-hatted stagehands, raised hell over his billing. But as Cohan matures, the story mellows, draws an affectionate picture of the Great Flag-Waver in his prime. Playing the old songs, bringing on the scene David Belasco, Fay Templeton, George Arliss, Yankee Doodle Boy marches up to 1939. Of young James Graham's take-off of Cohan's take-off of F. D. R. in I'd Rather Be Right, Cohan remarked...