Word: booed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. François Fratellini, 72, worldfamed clown of Paris' Medrano arena, leaving his brother Albert as the only survivor of the Three Fratellinis, who kept a generation of Europeans laughing, drew a 1949 boo from the U.S.S.R. ("reactionary . . . bourgeois . . . classical exponents of buffoon games"); of cancer; in Le Perreux, France...
...minute speech, which the gallery loudly cheered. Then cheers turned to jeers as Arnulfo Arias stood up to speak. Making no defense against the charges, he left his case up to the people. "Vox populi," he said, "vox Dei" From the packed gallery came the voice of the people: "Boo...
...went well until the beginning of the eighth inning, when the public-address system blared out the routine request for spectators to remain seated until the President had departed. The crowd's disconcerting response: a long and rolling boo. Harry Truman stared straight ahead. It was the first time in his six years of presiding at opening games that he had ever been booed; in fact it was the first time a President had been so booed since Herbert Hoover went to the ball game...
...request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly sent small boys scurrying through Ferrara to round up the party's toughs...
...every sniff, hiss and boo they responded with rousing "Ahhs!" All in all, the exhibition raised a splendid ruckus...