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TIME unkindly attributes a blasphemous howler to historically-minded and not at all eccentric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: National Emergency | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Talking United States | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Peverley's collection, which will be on display for about ten days, includes a German parachute, a blood-stained gunner's pad, two land mines, and several bombs, including an incendiary. One of the bombs has a "howler" attachment, which causes the bomb to "scream" when it falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German War Materials On Display in Union | 1/7/1942 | See Source »

...Governor on the Democratic ticket: eleven-including Busman Burton Schoepf, who partly financed his campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Local Affairs | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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