Word: flinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will give him a good battle before being displaced. Dick Harlow's endorsement of wrestling for many of his linemen has brought quite a few big boys up to the black mat on the second floor. Chub Peabody, Don Lowry, and Jim Grunig have all decided-to have a fling at the sport...
This rationalization did much to put a better face on Joe Stalin's signing up with Hitler; foreign Communists and fellow travelers were given a rebuttal to fling at those who have maintained since August that Joe is just another opportunist dictator. If he was still against everybody's government, he might still be for the amelioration of the world's masses...
...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...
...Scottish Highlanders are giving an unusual color to Hawkeye gridiron pageants. The carefully selected group that makes up this unusual musical unit is composed of a drum major, 21 pipers, two base drummers, eight snare and five tenor drummers, and four lassies who dance the highland fling. Organized in 1935 by Col. George F. N. Dailey, the unit has won wide acclaim in the four short years of its existence...
...Australian Lawn Tennis Association, had announced that the team (all eligible for war service) had been instructed to return home at once. But Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman did not fall in with Sir Norman's plans. He and his teammates were eager for one last fling at tennis before returning to their regiments. Picking up a telephone, Captain Hopman spoke to authorities Down Under, received permission to remain in the U. S.' for the National matches...