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flying jenny

noun

  1. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.,  a merry-go-round, especially a relatively small or unadorned one.

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A 16- year-old farm boy named Charles Lindbergh is free to buy a war-surplus "Flying Jenny."

He fell in love with the air at 20, after a spin in a Flying Jenny, skipped college to attend flying school, and won his second lieutenant's bars in 1929.

Out in wooded Bracken-Park, kids were riding the ferris wheel and flying jenny; babies were being held in swings; miniature trains were tooting and whistling as kids were whirled by adoring parents.

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