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...R.A.F. first learned about the little creatures in 1923 and called them gremlins -probably from the obsolete Old English-transitive verb greme, meaning: to vex. Yet it was not until World War II that the R.A.F. really got to know the gremlins. Then they learned that a female gremlin is a finella and that the babies are widgets. Flyers also learned that gremlins must always be referred to as them; gremlins prefer them to they or it or he and she because them conveys a feeling of the gremlin's immanence and nameless power...
Sensible, white-topped Elmer Davis, who is gradually taking charge of some matters that vex the U.S. people, used some plain and sensible language to tell off one of last week's chief people-vexers. He wrote to Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians...
...issue of the closed shop arose again last week to vex the President. His labor-management conference, instead of agreeing on a program to end strikes, stumbled over an old block: the closed shop...
...would vex many solid Netherlanders should they ever find themselves with a Queen having such a name as Beatrix, and Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina was understood to have made last week this firm stipulation: should Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard ever come to the throne it will be as "Queen Wilhelmina...
...they had to print and British news agencies felt they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members of His Majesty's Government ignored a Laborite...