Word: howler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbiad, even though it may be "mercifully forgotten," need not be pushed further into oblivion by misspelling its title. This, no doubt, is a mere slip in proof-reading. So, of course, but none the less diverting for that, is Mr. Gorman's new promulgation of the classic "howler" that the metre of Hiawatha is "trochaic diameter...
...Fred Thomson). The newest star of the open spaces has a great horse and a terrible sense of plot. He is employed in an old-fashioned howler about the gang of desperadoes trying to do the old father out of his ranch. The young son comes back from the war, congressional medal and all, just in time. There is also a girl and a beautiful white horse. The latter is good enough even to make Tom Mix's Tony jealous...
...deaconess-into-priest "howler," there is no defense. Subscriber Westman, as usual, is correct...
...draw your attention to a "howler" comparable almost to any high school product. In TIME, Oct. 5, Page 36, Column 3, we are confidently told that legislation is proposed to admit deaconesses to the priesthood. In other words, women are to be given Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church. A most egregious blunder. In the first place, a deaconess is not in Holy Orders as a deacon is, and is not "ordained" to her office or function but is "set apart." In the Episcopal Church there are but three orders of Ministers-Bishops, Priests, Deacons-and these are confined...
...disrobing ceased. Soon the Rev. and Mrs. Chervinsky, and the faithful howler Oleg were departing by taxi into obscurity...