Word: boner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average in such assignments. There is a good deal of unfortunate, hackneyed talk about someone called John Q. Public. And in a closing shot of the two halves of the world, the Eastern Hemisphere (described as "slave") is shown being totally eclipsed by the Western Hemisphere ("free"). This appalling boner is strongly counteracted by the film as a whole, but could be seriously misleading...
Exit McNear. Last March McNear pulled his most ruggedly individualistic boner. As defense traffic got snarled on his strike-bound railroad (over 150 cars were tied up at one time), he waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...
Despite his conspicuous field talents, Friesell's real fame can be traced to a colossal boner. In the waning seconds of last year's Cornell-Dartmouth game (two weeks before he quit college refereeing to work pro games exclusively), Friesell allowed Cornell five downs, the last of which produced a touchdown that won the game, 7-10-3. Referees have made that mistake before. But the Cornell-Dartmouth game was crucial: Cornell had been undefeated in 18 games, was on the next-to-the-last lap of its second successive undefeated season...
...Results. Not all Rockefeller projects have come to happy fruition. Worst boner was the launching of a $500,000 advertising campaign in Latin-American newspapers to persuade tourists to visit the U.S. The newspapers were carelessly chosen. Fat advertisements went to Axis-sympathizing papers while U.S. sympathizer like Buenos Aires' Critica and Rio de Janeiro's Vangnarda were neglected. Worst of all, in view of the high rate of dollar exchange, asking Latin Americans to tour the U.S. was a horrid joke...
Good lord, what a boner for TIME ! In the March 3 issue you say: "Franklin Roosevelt worked last week, like a sailor polishing brass, whistling as he worked." Franklin Roosevelt is a good sailor and no sailor whistles while he works. "Only fools and bos'n's mates whistle in the Navy...