Word: flinging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue playboy casts a hungry eye toward a torch singer's double exposure-on television...
TIME deplores atomic "spine-chilling" but manages to give it a fling . . . Despite your statement that "it may be years before the food products of Bikini are safe" [TIME, Oct. 3], dozens of us have partaken daily of Bikini's coconuts and papaya, with full clearance from both radiochemist and radio-medical officer. For six weeks we swam daily in the "poisoned lagoon" and walked hip-deep by the hour in the "radioactive water." Poppycock ! Over two years ago the scientists reported that a man living for months on twice-A-bombed Bikini would be exposed to radioactivity roughly...
...time, bobbing to the beat with an impish smile, she was giving them everything-boogie-beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...
Painter Fausett once took a fling at modern art, still likes some of it. "But," says he, "it doesn't belong inside a frame. It's decorative and that's all. Braque, for instance, is at his best in tapestries." Lucioni, who paints barns in a studio barn of his own, is too much awed by nature to tamper with it in his pictures: "When I'm out in the woods I have the feeling that I'm in an immense cathedral...
Chinese Jackpot. In 1933, with his factory grown to ten employees in bigger quarters adjoining the drugstore, Joyce decided to take a fling at playshoes. The trouble with playshoes, he thought, was that their flat soles made women look dumpy. He copied the elevated, platform-type slipper which the Chinese had worn for centuries, and brought out "wedgies." This time he hit the jackpot...