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Visiting Now Havenites, members of soccer and college football teams, attempted to distract the throngs with the strains of the immortal "Boola Boola," but the insurgents were quickly out-shouted by deep-threated Crimson rooters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1,000 March in Climax Rally, Hear Harlow Announce Decision to Win | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Perplexed and questioning, a sad Ibis fluttered back and forth along the Bow Street clothing-store annex with quizzical eye and mournful heart. "Boola, boola," the Blot sobbed; "no more Dutch white lead tiles for sale, but we're expecting a supply of Gothic arches from New Haven shortly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibis Queries Erring Lampy in Tragedy of Shrieking Door | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...Detroit, soft-spoken Negro Bandleader Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington announced that after five years he had finished composing Boola, a three-hour opera on "the authentic history of the American Negro.'' Said Ellington, "You can't play swing forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1940 | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Cried Browder later: "A beautiful reception. The students were beautifully behaved." The American Civil Liberties Union congratulated President Seymour. Whooped the New York Daily News: 3,000 BOOLA Boo BROWDER AT YALE. But the World-Telegram, which believes that the Browder menace is no laughing matter, hissed: "Liberalism ... has its sophomore class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Browder at Yale | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...messages to Congress Are a lot of boola-boola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cohan & Friends | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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