Word: howlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, the War Memorial board stood firm. "O.K.," cried Trustee Richard Newhall, "so I'm one of the heels of San Francisco . . .!" Later, he announced, "I never heard of this Madame Flagstaff till this came up." His opponents howled at his howler. Acting Mayor George Christopher raised his voice: "I don't give a damn about Flagstad. But I don't want the opera to die. I'd sing her roles myself first. Our culture is at stake." He calle'd on the War Memorial board to relent. The American Legion's national headquarters...
...asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest satire since Swift's Gulliver's Travels...
TIME unkindly attributes a blasphemous howler to historically-minded and not at all eccentric...
Mexico has two top conductors. They do not like each other much. Conductor Carlos Chávez of the National Symphony Orchestra has referred (in print) to José Yves Limantour as a "calumniator, howler, fool, evil person . . . and despicable." Limantour of the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra is equally outspoken about...
Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious...