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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...
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...
...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...