Word: boo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chen Pu-lei (Gissimo's secretary) : chun boo...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...
Regarding your last issue of TIME, you ran an article about the Merchant Marine calling us suckers and slackers. Also stating that we were expected to boo the message from the President of the United States. I wish to inform you that we are not slackers and suckers and also we respect our Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. We Merchant Mariners, 10,000 strong, are trying to build up the reputation of the backbone of the American victory fleet...
...United States Maritime Training Station at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. last week and heard themselves lauded by President Roosevelt (by letter) and a No. 2 company of lauders as potentially gallant merchant seamen. To the undisguised relief of the station's 1,800 instructors, they uttered no boo, no Bronx cheer, and only a few rude mutterings...
Secret Weapon. In Madagascar, two South African soldiers captured three Vichyfrench ones by popping out of hiding, chorusing: "Boo...