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Word: booed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even at home Herr & Frau Boess were not allowed to forget the Sklarek fur coat. Communists booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Boos for Boess | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Boo, whoo-oo-oo, woof, woof," moaned the ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Climax of the entertainment was some happy antics by two dozen of Cineman Mayer's showgirls in peek-a-boo costumes. Mr. Churchill peeked, did not boo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit is an example of departmental jealousy triumphant. . . . The beating of drums and issuance of mimeographed threats of a great Prohibition offensive will not aid the government. . . . Rum runners are not scared when Uncle Sam hollers 'Boo.'. . . The different services are fighting each other and the leaks will continue until there is real coordination and cooperation. When there is more brain work in Washington there will be less booze in Detroit-and more bootleggers in Atlanta Penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Questions & Answers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...into the earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast. In 1918 comes disintegration, lack of coordination between common soldier and superior, retreat, final defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remarquable | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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