Word: boo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Hearst lawyers stalled on bringing the action to trial Cottier's huff-puffed: "We take our courage in both hands and say 'boo.' '' The suit was mysteriously dropped...
Everybody tittered when the Sitwell counsel declared that "the plaintiffs would be the last persons to deny they are not of the same type as poets who dare not say Boo to a goose. . . ." They tittered louder as they heard...
Youngstown. No Willkie buttons showed along the way, except a furtive few in downtown Pittsburgh; no jeers were heard, save for one plaintive "Boo, Roosevelt"; one group of twelve-year-old boys chanted, "We want Willkie." It was the day for the masses to shout, and they knew it: under the bunting of Mahoning Avenue in Youngstown, swarming in a cheering, yelling horde on Federal Street, breaking through police lines to the car in which the President and Steelmaker Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, were riding.* Democrats had no success in the steel country when Franklin Roosevelt campaigned...
Willkie's voice was vigorous but tired. The audience had gone ready to scream, shout, laugh, cry, cheer, boo, wave their little U. S. flags. But the Candidate wouldn't pull out the stops, hurried on to his next sentence even as applause broke out, slurred his words so that their sense was sometimes lost. Once again the speech, with its simple, strong points read better than it sounded...
...week's end came the loudest boo, the harshest catcall Willkie had heard yet-the Gallup poll. From 78 electoral votes Willkie had dropped to 32. Franklin Roosevelt's score had risen from 453 to 499.*Willkie was conceded only six States-North and South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and the ancient stalwarts, Vermont and Maine. Only encouragement: in the big States, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Candidate Willkie had held his own, or nearly so, and was still within striking distance. But to believers in the summary of polls, the disenchantment was profound...