Word: boners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pluck" when played on the instruments for which it was written is as pointless as to say that of Liszt is "crash-a-crash." The whole article betrays your lack of acquaintance with harpsichord music: otherwise you would not speak of its performance as a novelty. The best boner is "Most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano"; to, that one should add: with indefensible violence to its texture and style...
...broadcast, jarred the air waves by referring to the new ship as Aguitania. For this slip, Johnny Johnstone took a round kidding, especially from Variety's puckish Radio Editor Bob Landry. Last fortnight, however, Editor Landry had occasion to be thankful for Johnny Johnstone's Mauretania boner...
...Peninsula. The Chamberlain and Daladier Governments have been savagely criticized for letting Spain fall into.the hands of Fascist Franco, who is now in a position to train big guns on Britain's Gibraltar from the landward side. The result of this strategic boner is that the British can no longer count on Gibraltar as a firm support for naval operations along the British Mediterranean lifeline, that France is worried about submarine and airplane attacks on her Marseille-Algiers shipping from Italy's Sardinia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. But Spain is not necessarily a fatal loss to Britain...
...After such a boner TIME'S Foreign News Editor does not deserve it, but next time he goes to Europe let him travel on the Empress of Britain and be informed...
...reduce the rate of increase in old-age levies (scheduled to rise next January from 1% to 1½% on employers and employes), or to postpone any increase at all until 1943. That seemed just as pleasing to Congress, just as appeasing to business, as correcting a bad boner in the Social Security...