Word: dingus
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...steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that he was 'chaplain of the 13th Kansas' as the grim-faced...
...beaming director of Columbia University's Office of Radio Research, has long pondered. Dr. Frank Stanton, yellow-haired director of research for CBS, ponders it likewise, and he also loves to design machines. Soon after Stanton and Lazarsfeld got together in 1937, they started work on a dingus that would record people's reaction to radio programs. Last week they were ready to disclose the dingus' disclosures...
...What this dingus needs," he reflected, "is speed...
Sirs: I have lived a half-century without ever knowing that dingus-"&"-was called the ampersand! (TIME, Dec. 14.) Wasn't there a famous & fashionable hotel in the Adirondacks by that name? If so, perhaps some of your readers might know who gave it that name & why. R. H. JOHN...
Another thing mr Editer it eint fair that these Capper fellows should go around sportin that little gold dingus of theirs while the poor nuglected atheletic heroes haint got nothing to show...