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...arose from 500 out-of-workers, Bonuseers, Communists and disgruntled citizens massed about the station. For 25 minutes the President stuck to the safety of his private car. When he finally emerged, he got a bitter booing. Before his eyes waggled placards: "We Want Bonus." "Down With Hoover." "Hoover-Boloney & Apple Sauce." During the 20-minute drive to the Olympic Arena he was jeered and derided by sidewalk throngs. Inside the hall he was among 20,000 friends yelling and stamping their welcome. On the platform with him were Henry Ford, Governor Brucker, Senators Couzens and Vandenberg, Postmaster General Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speech No. 3 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

Better chicken stew than the old Brookhart boloney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Chicken Stew | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...want to call a number such as MUrray Hill 4-9867, I have not to memorize it. I just dial 'Mugwump' and it comes at once. Ravenswood 8-7243 Is 'Sausage.' Columbus 5-0639 is too much to carry in the mind at one time, so I dial 'Boloney' and get it swiftly. . . . My only regret is I cannot do anything better than 'Plesido' with my own number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Lewis enlarged his stage until it included the whole continent. Although he preceded in popularity such current figures as Paul Whiteman and Meyer Davis he has consistently refused to take his profession solemnly. Asked to give a jazz concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, he replied: ''Boloney! Do you want to make me out a jackass?" His orchestra is a well-schooled unit of lively individuals. He was one of the first jazz-producers to practice leaving the orchestral dais and wandering among the dancers while playing. He has played in many a musical comedy, in bigtime vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreel Theatre | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...camp after visiting Oxford," wrote Scout John Fridolin Streiff to his parents. "After two months of drought we brought the rain, and how! . . . Yesterday, just as we went to parade past the Review Stand a storm hit us. Wet? We got soaked. The Duke of Connaught reviewed us. Boloney! Day before yesterday I was in the India Corps for lunch. Boiled brown rice from India. Boiled in olive oil Indian style. Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Hatchet | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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