Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound for Manila, thence for Australia and New Zealand, China and Japan in quest of big game. That they can and do often make such trips is testimony to the rich success of Publisher Fawcett's simple plan: to harness the smoking...
Battle Stories (132,000) and Screen Secrets (140,000) came in 1926. The latter began as Paris & Hollywood, consisting of pictures of females. Next month it is to become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly, ". . . dedicated to all glorious guzzlers, woozy warblers, rakes, scallawags, and other good people who still be lieve in the joy of living." The "smoke house" in the masthead is drawn to re semble a backhouse. Strangely out of keeping with its unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful...
...left his priestly post at the leper settlement on Molokai Island, Hawaii, for the first time in 44 years, went by boat to Honolulu for eye treatment. Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt it, doubt it very much...
...Tunney, a ringside spectator: "It was low ... a dangerous punch. Once I tried an uppercut like that against Chuck Wiggins. I fouled him twice and the referee warned me. The third time I landed low the referee became quite peeved. Then Chuck Wiggins spoke for the first time. 'Gee whiz, Mr. Referee, that punch...