Word: flips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phantom Lover. Whether, as written by Georg Kaiser, this might have been a flip and stinging comedy or an exciting allegory illustrated with melancholy symbols, no one could determine. It was clumsily translated and five out of six of its players staggered about the stage with moans and agonies, glaring, and thumping the furniture with their heavy hands. A feeble-minded virgin, seeing a young lieutenant looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair...
...Flip! The first service was spun. Into action sprang Helen Wills and Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor in the 41st annual women's championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. Twenty-two minutes later they shook hands, Miss Wills a 6-0, 6-1 victor over Mrs. Taylor...
...Flip Flop. Because Manhattan bankers are ready to follow the nod of Dwight W. Morrow, who was a partner of J. P. Morgan before he became Ambassador to Mexico, it was prudent, nay a pleasure, for Señor Calles to flip flop from one set of ideals to another. He flipped and he flopped, last week, to such good purpose that the Mexican Chamber and Senate took two vital steps...
...like suppliants, to Dr. H. P. Senftner, associate director of the state department of health. Their palms were covered with great ulcers, about one-half inch in diameter, one-sixteenth to one-eighth inch deep; the margins were irregular in outline and thickened. Dr. Senftner told the three to flip their hands over. The backs were covered with similar sores. One of the patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their hands and in one case a swollen lymph node in the armpit. Dr. Senftner went out into...
What newspaper reader aged 5 to 75 can name the creator of Flip, Dr. Pill, Little Nemo and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" (Windsor McCay)? Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed...