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Word: boo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elopement Revealed. Cranston ("Boo") Paschall, 24, student aviator, stepson of Seattle's Airplane-Maker William Edward Boeing; and Marguerite Simanek. 26, red-haired United Air Lines stewardess; to Carson City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...strange thing had marked the Pastor-Louis fight. It was a weird tribute. Had any other pair of fighters circled the ring for 55 seconds without letting fly a punch, boos, programs and perhaps chairs would have rained over the ropes. Such was the respect for the sudden death in Louis' left fist, such the sympathy for Pastor, outweighed 203 Ib. to 179 and regarded as a rabbit in a box with a rattlesnake, that the crowd lived the dread of every second with Pastor, watching the quick twitching motions of Louis' fists, starting, like a snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Survivor | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...another symptom of the breakdown of our economic system--the laissez-faire of the good Dr. Smith cannot function if the markets allow themselves to be unprotestingly victimized by shoddy goods. All good Republicans should unite in rising to boo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later, 1,000 members of the International Seamen's Union pack-jammed Cooper Union, heard their officers refuse to strike. One read a telegram which he said was from Harry Bridges, warning that an Atlantic strike would only delay matters. "Fake! Boo!" yelled the men. "We want Curran!" Insurgent Curran had been barred admission, was waiting outside. Called in, he won a unanimous strike vote, declared that every U. S. Atlantic port would be tied up. In the next two days 91 ships were strike bound in Atlantic harbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Irresistible v. Immovable | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...meet him, for Minneapolis is in the grip of four mill strikes and a parade might have been seized on by radicals as occasion for a demonstration. When he left the Nicollet Hotel to go to the municipal auditorium, a small group of workmen was waiting for him. "Boo!" they shouted, "We're for Roosevelt! Boo! You're just another Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Issues | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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