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Word: flipness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flip a Coin. As puzzled at the end of his tour as at the beginning, Economist Crowther said "almost every piece of evidence can be interpreted either way." He illustrated this bothersome ambivalence with an imaginary debate between a Pessimist and an Optimist. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trembling Top | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Lahr, and screenmen Laurel and Hardy, are the last of a unique school of slapstick comedians. Spawned in old-time vaudeville and burlesque, the brothers excel in the highly specialized arts of pantomime, pie throwing, and provocative leering at women, while our present generation of couriers relies chiefly on flip lines and artless mugging. Slapstick is passing out of existence, but not out of date. Until a new generation of wits rediscover the art, go down to the Laffmovie and rear at the last of the great comedy teams in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...finally she got out of balance and went flip, flop, flip, SOCKO ! When she balanced herself again she was on a new axis, the old North and South Poles were at the equator and a lot of the old tropical country around the new poles. That sort of explains Noah's flood, too," said Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Furse was the key of the attack on all fronts. He called his plays like a machine, rolling them out in an endless variety based on a few simple propositions. With himself as the continuous passing threat, Furse could hurl to a flanker, flip a Harmon lateral to the wing or tallback, hand off to Nadherny, or--and this is his most devasting weapon--leap in the air after a count of one or two or three and explode the ball over the center of the line...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

...salute you with a flip of the silver wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Pan Laureate | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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