Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the true Catholic point of view, his novels are depraved, perverted and, above all, malicious, in the strict theological sense of the word. His favorite characters, like Lady Metroland and Basil Seal in Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags, do evil gratuitously, for the sheer fun of the thing...
...Slipper. Betty rejoined her guests at the Copacabana. There, the fun bubbled over. Young Talbot whipped off a calfskin loafer, poured champagne in it for Betty to drink. Flashbulbs popped. Betty roared with glee. But Mr. Phyfe was distressed beyond words...
Over at Gatow Airport, in the British sector of Berlin, pilots had fun with a British WAAF operator known as Squeaky Mary. Whenever she told a pilot his course in her high-pitched voice, he answered in an equally squeaky imitation. Squeaky Mary called the U.S. airport. An American answered briskly: "Shoot, Luke, you're faded." Mary was momentarily nonplussed. After giving her message, she explained: "You see, it's been so long since I've had close contact with Americans-it's good to be at it again...
...doing so, he has made a name for him self as a flyer, author and textileman -pursuing his careers for fun as much as for profit...
...freedom. He did not know exactly what talents he had, but he knew he was smart. He had outgrown childish toys; he was ready for grown-up toys. He had (or soon would have) the money to buy them; he had the brains to use them. He would have fun. But grown-up fun, he quickly found, sometimes involves frustration...