Word: howler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once Hollywood has produced a comedy that is urbane, intelligent, and even funny, unlike the usual innocuous howler aimed at "everyone from six to sixty." O Men, O Women is a charming spoof of psychoanalysis and the rather unpredictable behavior of people in and out of love...
...Believe (Frankie Laine; Columbia). A new song with a religious theme that has more dignity than might be expected. Howler Laine keeps his voice earnestly reverent...
...long supported a foreign policy against which one has always voted and continues to vote. Possibly it is out of order to complain that Taft's last campaign for the Senate was run in flagrant defiance of the laws regulating contributions and expenditures, even though Taft is the loudest howler for honesty, efficiency, and economy in government...
...incomparable Len Hutton-"White Rose Wonder" and "Pride of Pudsey"-a Surrey cricketer? . . . After such a howler I should scarcely raise an eyebrow were you to assert that Joe DiMaggio plays for the Boston...
Author Fisher shows some sympathy for the hot-eyed Ahijah. It is almost as though there were some burning affinity between the old eater of stones and howler in the waste places and the seer of Hagerman, Idaho, crying his confused and passionate evangel of history in the wilderness of American letters...