Word: boohoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gross nearly a million dollars a year, have cut 500 phonograph discs. Last year the Royal Canadians were acclaimed by Orchestra World for introducing more song hits (250) than any other band. Some 30 were written by Brother Carmen-among them Confucius Say, Coquette, Oh, Moitle and Boo-Hoo (BooHoo, I'll tell my mama on you, the little game that you played has made her baby oh! so blue). Downbeat a trade journal for those who like it hot, scornfully voted Lombardo "The King of Corn...
Sykeston. ". . . There will be hundreds of acres not put in and you can look for a shortage of everything. And all the boohoo about the labor shortage in the war plants is not labor. . . . They work from six and a half to eight hours, but on the farm it's twelve to 18 hours a day. I think the best the War Labor Board can do is investigate the war plants and let the workers work twelve hours...
Rookie Giebell had more than the Indian bats against him. A Ladies' Day crowd of 45,000 streamed into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium laden with eggs, eggplants, cauliflowers, fruit. They were there to get back at the Tigers for calling the Indians Crybabies, Boohoo Indians and Papeese (plural for papoose). As soon as the Tigers went on the field they were pelted from the stands. By the time Rudy York smacked one of Feller's pitches for a two-run homer, the diamond looked like a vegetable plate...