Word: flits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, after one of the biggest deals in baseball history which brought Jimmy Foxx, Flit Cramer, Eric McNair, Johuny Marcum, and Heinie Manush to the local club, Collins finds himself at the head of a potential first place outfit...
Days and weeks passed and then one day the President realized that he was about to flit off again on another vacation. It would never do for him to leave without allowing the members of the Court to do themselves the honor of calling on him. After all they were venerable men, whom it would be wanton folly to offend. So only an hour or two before his train departed Franklin Roosevelt had himself rolled from his office back to the White House proper and with his wife at his side not only received the formally-dressed oldsters...
...very thin and streamlined," who are known as Orgets and come from The-Land-We-Know-Not-Of. Mrs. Neilson was a small girl in Philadelphia when she invented the original Orgets as companions. In those days Orgets lived in baubles on Christmas trees. Resurrected for Radio, they now flit about in airplanes too thin to be seen, slide under doors, squeeze into books. In each program they do a good deed. Sample...
...unhappy because Jack & Jean, the farmer's children, dislike milk. Orgets Bee & Baw retire to a dell to ponder Cow's plight, come upon two starving baby foxes. Back to the farmyard they flit, persuade Cow to lumber off to the dell with milk for the foxes. On the way clumsy Cow catches a hoof in a railroad track, is nearly killed by a train. Jack & Jean, overcome by Cow's bravery, agree to love her, drink milk...
Characters are a set of bohemian rapscallions of both sexes who infest a pension in Paris and call themselves the Barbarians. Ready for anything, especially a change of scene or conversation, they flit en masse to the Riviera, where they continue to astound the bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving...