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...Souk-el-Spaatz the entire air command has become an interlacing of U.S. warp and British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...
...Massive, thick-necked, aged (80) Lieut. Governor Walter S. Goodland (a Republican whom reporters call "Woof Woof" because he looks and growls like a St. Bernard) might get the job. He was re-elected last month, had himself sworn in for his new term by his nephew one hour and ten minutes after he heard of Loomis' death. Though Wisconsin's Constitution makes no such provision, Walter Goodland's friends insist that he should on Inauguration Day (Jan. 4) become acting governor...
Last week other sections of the press gleefully pointed out that the Economist's typesetter could not, or would not, tell a wasp from a warp or a wolf from a woof. This helped Britons clear up one mystery in a confused world...
Author of such vocal successes as The Big Brown Bear Went Woof; J'Ever-Hm? I Did! Bitty Buzz; Rachem; Nichavo, Mana-Zucca has also written orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a raft of piano pieces. Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last...
...fangled radio sets in areas around New York City, Boston, Washington, Columbus (Ohio), Chicago and Milwaukee, nowadays enjoy radio entertainment that is static-free, interference-free, does not wobble, fade or burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener: "Why, this...