Word: booed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Laski was booed by the audience, he said, "Now don't boo me. I know you disagree with me, but I believe in freedom of expression, and I wouldn't boo...
...Curiosity Shop (Victor LP). Stagy old recordings, dating from 1911 to 1929, that should bring mist to many an eye. Among the performers: Maurice Chevalier (Valentine), Helen ("boo-boop-a-doop") Kane (I Have to Have You), Marlene Dietrich (Falling in Love Again), Fanny Brice (My Man), Gloria Swanson (Love). Added features: monologues by Will Rogers, De Wolf Hopper and John Barrymore...
...bawled the Labor benches at this slur on Shinwell's patriotism, but the Prime Minister's dander was up. Instead of withdrawing, he recklessly peppered the air with further opprobrium: an ambiguous reference to "cosmopolitanism," which is a word the Kremlin likes to hurl at Jews. Laborites booed and hissed as Churchill started to stride out of the House. "Is it in order to boo a member of this House?" he demanded truculently. A scathing Scottish voice gave his answer: "What else can you say to a goose?" Now came cries from the Tory side, demanding the withdrawal...
...court, the prosecution produced witness after witness to back up its charges that Provoo (rhymes with "no boo") had committed a long series of "overt acts" against his fellow prisoners after the fall of the Philippines. As they told their stories, the grim old names-Corregidor, the Malinta Tunnel, the Death March of Bataan-evoked bitter, half-forgotten memories of the painful days of U.S. humiliation and defeat...
Storey claimed Ellison shouted, at various times, "All policemen are grafters. What are you, Dever's gestapo? Down with the police, Boo." Shohet had also been shouting and running, he said...