Word: flinging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...North America gives another showing, with only one fourth the population of Africa, i.e. 76,033,000, she rejoices in 1,136 dailies, with a total circulation of 4,578,223 per issue. Calculate that out for yourselves, if you are patriotic enough. The editorial fellow feeling forbears a fling at Harvard indifference of "other publications." North America has 9,556 with a total circulation per issue of 22,073,000 as against 10,730 with total circulation of 33,901,400 per issue in Europe...
...fond of old china, of bric-a-brac, of everything quaint, curious and antique. We take delight in rare old editions of rare old books in rare old bindings. We even enjoy rare old jokes, and racy remarks. We do not object to having the Advocate and the Lampoon fling their merry jests at us, for they must fill up their columns, and their jocose sayings are not able to hurt. But we should urge a plea to the Lampoon to vary the style of its lively quip. In the last five numbers of that witty sheet we have been...
...English by mistaken scholars. It is such a grammar that has weighed down our poor, be-parsed English speaking people, so that when their freedom was proclaimed a few years ago, and a man in whom some of them put some trust dared to tell them that they might fling off their incubus in the name of great common sense, from every country where English is spoken there came back to him cries of relief and utterances of hearty thanks, which have not yet died away.- Richard Grant White...
...gentleman who writes the communication in another column in regard to foot ball says "all flings at the referee are but cowardly utterances." It would be far from our intentions to dispute this statement; in fact we fully coincide with him in this opinion. But the gentleman seems to imply that there were "flings at the referee" printed in our columns. In regard to this, we wish to say a few words in defence. In Thursday's issue we expressed ourselves to the effect that "unsteadiness, aided by decisions of the referee cost us the game." In this phrase...
...their paper any tinge of college tone or influence. Without discussing whether or not such an influence would be after all so terrible a thing as it is painted, we must express our surprise that its editors select and reprint as an advertisement of their paper an envious fling at the Lampoon and at "Boston superciliousness," taken from the New York Critic. "In view of its success," cries the Critic, "there is something highly comic [sic] in the assertion of certain Boston papers that it is a continuation of the Harvard Lampoon. It owes less to the Lampoon than...