Word: fie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fie on TIME (June 12) for libeling a lady, and making a killer out of her. Dangerous Dan McGrew was "pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead" by the man from the creeks. The lady that's known as Lou pinched several pokes, but pulled no triggers...
...telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas, bo-dark), or sits popping huge chunks of red watermelon into his mouth from the end of a rancher's stiletto, or plays a little dominoes with his brothers. (They usually win.) At night...
What Mrs. Ross feels about this place and people comes out in her talk with Editor Clinton Haight of the Blue Mountain Eagle. Typical Haight editorial: ''Fie Fie on the Cockeyed World for shooting its taxpayers. . . . Never let a taxpayer die. ... If taxpayers die, or we shoot them in wars, we can never hope to Bal. the Budg." They had lunch in the Haight back yard. On the hillside above it was the mountain cabin where once lived Joaquin Miller, who wrote: "Sail on! sail on! and on!" . . . They talked about Hitler, about the Northwest, about war, about...
After all, there would always be ten luncs for the Hit Parade, no matter how broadly the composing industry expanded. But when "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fie-yah" reaches the top of the heap, for me it's maybe too much...
...marksmen excelled individually as well as collectively. Meyers of Northeastern was high man with 276 points, and Bedworth of Yale was third with 275. Captain Lem Hyde, with 275, Slim Goldberg with 274 and Les Rusoff with 273, all, of Harvard, however, became the other three of the top fie sharpshooters. Diz Dunbar, 266, and Bill Cooper, 260, were the other Crimson shooters, while Ted Miller and Larry Shaul acted as alternates. Next year's captain and letter winners will be announced later...