Word: bawled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough-ribbing Bawl Street Journal, annual parody published by the Bond Club of New York...
...haymaker at Idaho's Democratic Governor Arnold Williams, sneered that he "will no more enforce the laws than he will climb to the top of a flagpole to eat his lunch." Next day the Republican Statesman used an entire editorial column to bail out the Democratic governor and bawl out its free-swinging columnist. Vardis Fisher quit in a huff, looked for another soapbox. Last week, readers who really missed him had to buy a tiny upstart weekly called Statewide (circ. 5,000). Fisher and his new editor were getting along fine...
...since 1941 has the Bawl Street Journal, a wild parody of the sober, conservative Wall Street Journal, been published by the Bond Club of New York for its annual outing. To make up for this wartime repression, the first postwar edition of the Journal last week contained some of the most merciless, heavy-handed ribbing ever of bankers, brokers and bureaucrats...
Deepest thrusts were at the Kaiser-Frazer Corp., which has sold $53 million worth of stock, has yet to mass-produce a car. Said a Bawl Street Journal ad: "See the Kaiser or Frazer before you buy! We'd like to see one ourselves some day. There's real no-driving pleasure in ordering a Kaiser-Frazer car. . . . Besides, your deposit will draw interest each January and July 1 while you wait for delivery. Kaiser, Frazer, Superman & Thurston. 'Automobiles Floated on Water.' While you wait for our cars-Take a ride in our stock...
...sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long white locks, nodded majestically as if thousands cheered, and cranked down the car window with incredible dexterity to bawl, "Hiya...