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...brandy and trie lamps were turned out while a responsible uncle put a match to it-and the fun, the rather terrifying fun, began! The leaping thin flames, blue and yellow like wild pansies, turned the laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves...
...brisk whirl around the corner in a taxi and Buckingham Palace was reached. Mr. Baldwin was immediately ushered into the Presence; and the King-charged him with forming a new Cabinet-a mission which he was prompt to accept...
...obscure rendezvous in Paris the meeting will take replace. 'No blare of trumpets, no strains of martial music, no pomp and circumstance worthy of the Emperor of the Russians will mark the debut of Cyril into the political whirl of Europe. That is all for the future. The Prefect of Police has ordered out no extra details of gendarmes to handle the crowds. The hotels have created to tents on their roofs to accommodate the influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty...
...remaining events, the Crimson has a substantial edge over the southern trackmen. Watters is expected to whirl away with the half mile race in a time of 1.56 or so. Tibbetts, whose individual time in the four mile relay at Franklin Field last week was unofficially timed at from 4.21 to 4.24 for his mile, appears unbeatable over this distance. To Cutcheon, another member of the University's championship for mile relay team, will fall the two mile distance, in which he appears an easy victor...
...Wignall has to say of the institution of which he writes the life history: "there have been few epoch-making changes in the two hundred odd years that have passed since pugilism first became a recognized trade. I do not call it a sport. . . . Professional boxers are tradesmen. They whirl their fists to purchase expensive cars or else to buy coffee-stall suppers...