Word: owl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., a mouse shut off the electricity. In Freeport, Ill., an owl jammed a high-tension transformer...
James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, ballad-singer and tunesmith (You Are My Sunshine), who serenaded the people of Louisiana into electing him governor, went fly-casting (with a bug) in a bayou near Bunkie, hooked and landed an owl...
...nettles in the primrose path of James Caesar Petrillo has been the National Music Camp at Interlochen (Mich.), where more than 600 boys & girls study orchestra and composition every summer. Three years ago, swarthy, owl-eyed Musicians' Union Boss Petrillo decided that the ten-to 18-year-old musicians (too young to pay union dues) were "nonprofessional"; he stopped their weekly broadcasts over NBC. Gentle-mannered Dr. Joseph Edgar Maddy, Interlochen director and a union member for 36 years, switched the concerts to Michigan's noncommercial, state-owned station WKAR...
...OWl's Job. Just what had OWI done? Elmer Davis' sprawling agency had been struggling to tell the U.S. story abroad, to keep U.S. officials fully informed of doings at home, to help in psychological warfare by radio and by the preparation of leaflets to be dropped over enemy lines or into occupied territories. In the opinion of most observers, it had done a fairly effective job in a sphere which neither the Army nor the State Depart ment was set up to handle...
...would have been Secretary of State if Tom Dewey had been elected President, worked well and loyally for Stettinius. Armstrong's vast knowledge of foreign affairs was immensely useful to the delegation's amateurs. The State Department's Leo Pasvolsky, with the eyes of a tired owl, knew more about the Dumbarton Oaks plan than any one else. Archibald MacLeish shepherded a restless horde of consultants, and Nelson Rockefeller Avas able scoutmaster for the Latin Americans. Rockefeller gave the Europeans an unpleasant impression of a party whip swinging his votes...