Word: boola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, an obscure company named Connecticut Boola, Inc. paid $4,500,000 to R. H. Macy & Co., to buy Macy's spanking new nine-story building in San Francisco. But there is nothing obscure about Connecticut Boola's parent: Boola is the wholly owned subsidiary of Yale University. The new owner promptly leased the store back to Macy's for 31 years and two months, at an average annual rental of $240,000. Thus Yale became Macy's San Francisco landlord...
Included in the collection are such favorites as "Boola," the "Cannon Song," "Dartmouth's in Town Again," and "As the Backs Go Tearing By," and, of course, "Fair Harvard." The band also relaxes for a moment to play a touch of "Rhapsody in Blue" for the Elis...
Wherever he alights on his speaking tour around the country, a long red carpet is rolled out for him. When he finishes, the audience sings the new national anthem Indonesia Raja. The tune is almost a direct steal from Boola, Boola; the refrain starts...
...Boola, Boola. As a matter of fact, Soekarno lives in terror of assassination, although the passionate loyalty and vigilance of the men around him would make an attempt difficult. Few men in the postwar world evoke the fanatic devotion of millions as does this 45-year-old child of luck and revolution. He is tall for an Indonesian (5 ft. 8 in.) and, by native standards, superlatively handsome. His Malay is self-consciously choice; in fact, he is so insistent on advancing the native speech that he is called Indonesia's Webster (meaning Noah, not Daniel). He is quite...
...well-known Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton and Harvard medleys arranged by F. Leroy Anderson '29, "Harvardiana" "10,000 Men," and Yale's "Boola-Boola" will find their way into the collection...