Word: boola
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. JAMES ("ROSY") MCHARGUE, 97, leather-lunged jazz reedman who played with Benny Goodman and Kay Kyser; in Santa Monica, Calif. The clarinetist, saxophonist and vocalist--whose career in clubs lasted 70 years--got his nickname from singing the Hawaiian novelty song When Rosy Riccoola Do da Hoola Ma Boola...
...final analysis, Yale's service to Harvard is to provide us with a neatly packaged, trendy alternative subculture. By praising Yale, we rise above the petty comparisons of Nobel laureates and U.S. presidents. We become another incarnation of the Harvard elite. And we have more fun barking "Boola Boola" than by singing "Ten Thousand...
...competing in squeeze-offs. In self-defense, they are banded together in associations presided over by the likes of people named Big Lou. It would not surprise anyone to learn that a certain Big George laces himself into the accordion harness and knocks out a couple of choruses of Boola Boola when he can't find a friend to pitch horseshoes with. Big Barb wears the earplugs. (So do the Secret Service people, though for security reasons those little things in their ears are called radio receivers...