Word: boner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost legendary among U. S. political mistakes is the famed 1916 boner pulled by Candidate Charles Evans Hughes: in California he forgot to shake the hand of Hiram Johnson, thus lost Johnson, California, and the election. Candidate Wendell Willkie took no chances on his California tour (TIME, Sept. 30). Overlooking Senator Johnson's entrenched conservatism. his utter isolationism, Candidate Willkie praised the Senator where he thought it would do the most good-in California...
...surprised as anyone in the park when I saw it in my hand," wailed Ump Wilson, trying to explain his unprecedented behavior. "It was the worst boner I ever pulled...
...politics, new to public affairs, he made many a boner. Texas newspapers duly reported the boners. For the capital reporters at Austin, O'Daniel's press conferences were circuses in which they fed their victim mock questions and played up his answers as gags. Governor 0'Daniel was distressed but helpless. Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy had been his campaign theme song; the correspondents made him out a puling Pappy who could not grasp even the elementals of applied political pap. But the Governor, despite all his campaign japery, took his office seriously, trusted in simple faith...
...unfilled suits of clothing perambulate through the landscape and an invisible hand unwind a thick swathing of head bandages and leave a headless jacket will experience a deep satisfaction at this pseudo-scientific thriller. In The Invisible Man (1933) invisibility caused the patient's death. No such silly boner is made this time. An antidote for invisibility is found, thus insuring Universal studio of the possibility of sequels as long as public interest in invisibility lasts...
...proof reader tried to save my hide by putting in..."(the name escapes me at the moment)"...but it was a boner and to all of you that called and wrote in, my humblest apologies. Incidentally, the name of the thing was "Honeysuckle Rose"--as arranged by Fletcher Henderson...