Word: sling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Lords learned, last week, from Baron Gorell how to "gazoomph a sarker," "noise the edge," and "sling a gee." This information was imparted by the Noble Lord, after he had spent a month in English provincial towns, spying and eavesdropping upon the uncouth persons who hold bogus auctions...
There were deep lines in his face, and because of neuritis he carried his left arm in a sling. He was accompanied by his wife, who is one of Europe's most charming diplomatic hostesses, his daughter Diane, and his younger son, Lawrence...
...country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure character called William G. Dowrie...
...unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...
...reception was Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd, first to fly over the North Pole, with his arm in a sling after his recent (TIME, April 25) airplane crash. Also was present Sir Charles Higham (TIME, April 18, May 2), British tea publicity man, who joined the official party as it filed out, had his picture taken with the Naval officers on the City Hall steps...