Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...True to my line of policy in the Reichstag, I have the honor to inform you that I withdraw from the Centrist party and in the future will consider myself representing the Republican and Socialist wing...
...withdrawal means a realignment within the Centre Party. Some of his personal following will doubtless go with him leftwards. The rest of the party will probably congregate about Franz von Papen (onetime German military attache at Washington) who has been gaining influence in the conservative wing of the party...
...Story. As Tristram Wing passed the vicarage window he was distinctly nauseated. Mrs. Orpin and the two females he could hear buzzing with her were like three fat blow-flies scavenging in the middle of a road. Their morsel was the subject of the Rev. Mr. Orpin's note, which Wing had come to answer. It was his wife, Brenda, upon one of whose actions a skulking poacher had chanced to spy. During the interview, Wing mentioned his nausea and damned the whole gabbling village...
They had Mattocks down from town again at once. Tristram's reason: to rebuke village prurience. Brenda's reason: Mattocks still needed her. Result: Mattocks improved and the prurience intensified. He began a canvas of great promise and a village gossip sent Wing an anonymous note, worded in newspaper clippings, that mentioned "adultery", "abominable lover", "disgusting wickedness". Mattocks finished his canvas?Brenda translated into landscape, unquestionably a masterpiece; and village roughs smashed it, flinging him into a creek as revenge for a fictitious attempt upon a girl...
Specimen Dialect and Moralizing. Wing Foo, cook: "Boss Big Bloy him no catch um happness, nobody catch um happness. Boss Big Bloy him catch um Missee Nola, evlybody catch um happness?that mo bette...