Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week ex-Admirer Canby was formally admitted to the Pegler gallery of melted waxworks. Wrote Peg: "Henry Seidel Canby [is] an antediluvian crud who has been mewling away about the art of writing for the last 2,000 years, and pompously presuming to toss compliments to his betters, such as and specifically me." Still feigning an inability to remember 70-year-old Canby's name, Pegler called him "Mr. Canfield," "doc," "the old boy" and "gramp." Concluded Pegler: "If the old goat wants to get tough . . . what does he mean quoting my piece without permission? I am copyrighted...
...mountain went on growing, but not so quietly as at first. Steam burst from its top, digging a small crater which filled with mud and water. Steadily the explosions grew more violent; the steam smelled of sulphur and broke out strongly enough to toss rocks high in the air. But still there was no hot lava or other volcanic matter. The rocks and sand thrown out were just local material torn loose by the steam...
Midst the myriad of brickbats flying in the direction of the various Armed Forces [TIME, June 6], may I toss one tiny little rose...
...Southern Cal. 55 2/5, U.C.L.A. 31, Stanford 30, Michigan State 26, Penn State 25. The day's outstanding individual performance: a 56-ft.-1½-in. heave of the shot by Yale's Jim Fuchs, who is also a pretty good halfback in season; Fuchs's toss broke the N.C.A.A. record of another footballer-shot putter, the late Al Blozis of Georgetown, by one inch...
...feet, at the end of which is a foot-high ledge. Pennies can be ricocheted off this ledge or rolled up to it in any manner. "Leaners" are particularly desirable, although there is always the chance that they'll be caromed away from the ledge by somebody else's toss...