Word: gremlin
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Tough and wiry, he never looks quite well. In the blazer which he puts on to avoid the saluting problem when he drifts around to a cricket match at Cairo's Gezira Club, he looks something like a pale, thin gremlin. His appearance worries his friends. Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the whole R.A.F., on a visit to Middle East headquarters kept asking him: "Are you all right, Arthur...
There's a spherical middle-aged Gremlin Who'll spin on your stick like a top. . . . -R.A.F. Coastal Commrnd...
...your article on gremlins you fail to mention "boojums," though you have listed the names of other gremlin relatives and cousins. We who live in this section of Connecticut where the boojums are thickest don't really care, but the boojums are offended...
Referring to your article on "Gremlins" [TIME, Sept. 14], credit for the discovery of the European gremlin should, I believe, go to an unknown weather forecaster at Le Bourget Airport, Paris. I knew the pilot concerned. (He has since been killed...
Incidentally, your article fails to mention that well-known cousin to the gremlin, the "Hopschneider," who lives on the ski trails in Switzerland and Canada, and emerges suddenly from behind trees in order to cross the skis of runners as they go by. As you dig yourself out and disentangle your limbs, their squeaky laughter can be heard echoing through the pines...