Word: boo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this seemed pretty alarming to foreign correspondents in Italy, who began describing the "rising international tension." But the dictators' press has shouted "Boo!" so many times in the last few years that no longer did such grimacing register in Paris, certainly not in London. There, instead of pondering over the combined Italian-German military might, crowds stood before bookstore windows and gazed at maps of Soviet Russia, commenting approvingly on the size of the great brown expanse. Brokers were calling the advance in stock prices the Stalin Boom. Movie audiences were applauding newsreels of the Red army...
...Deal purge victim John O'Connor, Sol Bloom has spent much of his time selling George Washington to the American people. But this time, after eating his way through an evening of Roosevelt-hating speeches, Sol got up to sell FDR to the folks. One lone, small boo came from the audience, but it found the one sensitive spot in his hide. The Blooms walked...
...league baseball, fans wait to see who is pitching before they lay their bets. With symphony orchestras, the man whom fans either cheer or boo is the conductor. Arturo Toscanini having finished 16 innings with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, a comparative rookie named Hans Wilhelm Steinberg stepped into the box last week, while veteran Bruno Walter sat by in the dugout, ready for action...
...broadcast was begun with an announcement that a dramatization was taking place and was concluded by Mr. Welles's statement that it was "the Mercury Theatre's own version of dressing up in a sheet . . . and saying Boo!" But the story had been so realistically transplanted from Britain to the U. S., from the 19th to the 20th Century, that almost any listener who came in on a fragment might be pardoned for a momentary pricking up of the ears...
Editor Rose, who diplomatically refers to her readers as "growing-ups," promises them good clean fun from "Sunrise to Sandman." Selected titles from table of contents for the November issue are: "Gloomy the Camel," a story; "Boo Boo, the Woods Boy," a picture story; "Helping Around the House," subtitled...