Word: runaround
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...would like to dance, hooks her partner's arm with the umbrella, and whirls away with the girl, leaving the umbrella on the arm of the victim. The dispossessed dancer then repeats the process. French couples enjoyed the Hitleresque fun of giving the man with the umbrella the runaround, leaving him embarrassed and puzzled...
...like to know how long the Faculty think they can give us Freshmen the runaround...
...reply was typical-the Exchange offered to publish a letter to Douglas promising to reorganize and admitting that SEC was not to blame for the crash. No less than 15 drafts of this letter were composed, each so phrased that Douglas knew it was just one more runaround. Finally, in mid-November, he blew up, snapped: "The negotiations are off." "I suppose you'll go ahead with your own program?" asked the Exchange's representative...
...there he saw his pal cut in two by a freight car. After one voyage as a sailor he decided it was time to learn a trade, fixed on bricklaying. ("But there's diffulgultees getting into the bricklaying game, what I mean. You should of seen the runaround they hands me.") Eventually, in Chicago, he wangled his way into the union, learned the trade and began to make steady money. He married a pretty Polish waitress and felt everything was fine...
...speed, looked lopsided and awkward, whirl round the track. A Duesenberg Special with Jimmy Gleason driving led most of the way with Tony Gullota in a Stutz Special giving him a fight. Going into the last fifty miles the pit called in Gullota, and he stopped on his next runaround. "Gas line clogged!" he shouted, jumping out. Gleason signalled that motor trouble was forcing him to stop for gas. A big red car with "39" painted on the hood and tail was in front now. By looking at the programs the people in the stands made out that the driver...