Word: booed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some hearty laughs. When a single boo rang out amid the cheers with which he was greeted before his speech in Los Angeles' Elks Temple, he ad-libbed: "Fellow Republicans and a Democrat, I hope!" When a questioner asked him when the income-tax law was going to be simplified, he said: "You know the income tax law is really very simple for most people. You just fill out a form, turn it over to check what your income is and that's the end of it. ..." A gale of laughter halted him, startled him, and then obviously...
...Crimson editorialist fails altogether to grapple with the main question raised by the outshouting of Smith, which is: is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be rather louder than the man who is addressing it? Precedent is altogether in favor of the right to boo; hissing-down is a hoary Parliamentary tradition; if it appears indecorous, not cricket, or "rowdy," as your editorialist put it, pray recall that generations of English Lords have been experts at all manner of sibilances and razzberries. The demonstration was not really rowdy anyway: it was incredibly well-organized, although motivated...
...Cheers & Boos. For two days Congress waited for the President's decision on the labor bill. The day the message came, House & Senate galleries were packed, mostly with union sympathizers. In the House they cheered the veto message when it was read. Some Congressmen looked up and yelled "Boo" at the galleries. The vote in the House was quick and overwhelming: 331 to override (225 Republicans and 106 Democrats); 83 to sustain (11 Republicans, 71 Democrats and New York City's man of the Labor Party, Vito Marcantonio...
...little helpers captured the ball, they heaved it down to Max, who grabbed it in his great leathery hands and dumped it in the 10-ft.-high basket (he could jump to reach 11 ft.). It didn't seem fair, and after a while the crowd began to boo, even though most of them were Walnut fans. The coach took Max out for a quarter to give the other team a chance. In the final quarter, Max missed one basket. Said he, afterward: "I had a bad night." Final score: Walnut 53; Friars Point...
...both sides of the Atlantic, thriller-dealers were set ashake by a rather small boo from Msgr. Ronald Knox (The Body in the Silo). "I say the detective story is in danger of getting played out," wrote Father Knox in the Roman Catholic weekly, the Tablet. ". . . . The stories get cleverer and cleverer, but the readers are getting cleverer and cleverer...