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Word: boners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Rodgers & Hart, Hollywood's trouble is stupidity, not malice. "And you can no more resent stupidity in a movie director than in an elevator boy." Headline boner where they were concerned came when, in the sheet music made for Mississippi, Swanee River was credited to "Rodgers & Hart." They differ concerning Hollywood's financial rewards. Hart believes they could make more money there than on Broadway, but prefers to forego it because he loves the theatre. Rodgers feels that a Hollywood income may be more certain but that only in the theatre can musicomedy writers really strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys From Columbia | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Classic indeed is TIME'S boner in placing Schuschnigg's color photo on the cover and captioning: Chancellor of Austria. Inside, on page 18, you concede that Schuschnigg is out and that Seyss-Inquart has been "forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

According to Mr. Greene, this type of man was not intended to be included on the list. As an example he classed musicians, artists, or business men as practitioners, and not fundamental theorists and scientists. Harvard he said wished to boner only this latter class, and for this reason a degree was given to a great musical historian, no a musician, to a great fundamental economist, not a business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "300TH PROVED FAITH OF WORLD IN HIGHER EDUCATION"--GREENE | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

Selectmen can easily assume an injured attitude; that is probably what they do best. But now they have overstepped all bounds in resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROLL THEM BONES | 6/8/1932 | See Source »

...takes a really clever student to make a first rate "boner", according to M. S. Balch '25, instructor and tutor who has made a private collection of "howlers", culled from themes submitted in English A. Mr. Balch called attention to the imagination brought to bear in a theme about the Great Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English A Instructor Reveals "Howlers" Culled From Work Of Freshmen--One Urges Students, "Fight for Alma Martyr!" | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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