Word: fowlerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers, racing at home, are expected to take second behind Yale. Captain Ted Snedeker is rated with Mearns as one of the best runners in the Ivy League, and coach Matty Geis can count on Al Pittis, Ed Fowler, and Bruce Macomber to follow close behind...
...Bowl . . . I could creep into a flophouse, speakeasy, hot-spot or crap-joint with a pretty clear idea of what I'd be in there for. And although I admit that there are times when I could cheerfully hospitalize your typewriter-pecking hoodlums with a double whammy from Fowler's English Usage, I don't really have much cause to dicker. You've got a dead eye for an angle and stone the crows* if we don't get our one-and-a-tanner's worth...
...What are our orders: to shoot or not to shoot?" Snapped Aggie: "My instinct is to shoot." Managing Editor Jack Campbell agreed, so long as the pictures were taken when court was not in session. So Aggie rushed down to the courtroom a rugged reinforcement: veteran Hearstling Photographer Perry Fowler, 41, who parachuted into Yugoslavia for the OSS and was captured by the Germans (TIME, June...
...short time later, City Editor Underwood was called to the phone again. This time it was Photographer Fowler calling from Nourse's chambers. Said he: "All right, Aggie. I took the picture. Now I'm under arrest. I've already been convicted, fined $100 and sentenced to five days in jail." That was just what Campbell and Underwood had been hoping for. The case before Judge Nourse, involving a petition to recall Mayor Fletcher Bowron, was hardly sensational news. But the Her-Ex thought that there was an important principle at stake. Almost all Los Angeles courts...
...when the court convened after the noon recess, lawyers from the Her-Ex and the four other newspapers were arrayed alongside Prisoner Fowler. Judge Nourse, having stuck his chin way out, pulled it back fast before the Her-Ex haymaker landed. Said he solemnly to Fowler: "The record shows I adjourned the court until 2 p.m. tomorrow. The court therefore was not in session at the time you took your photograph. I feel therefore that the order I made sentencing you and finding you in contempt of court was not properly made . . . You are released from custody and purged...