Word: boose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should not Americans begin to ask themselves these questions: Whether England wins or not, will it have been enough for the future peace of our consciences that we only formed a safely protected cheering section? And one not quite loud enough to drown out the boos of our Communazis. Will...
One indirect reference he made to Wendell Willkie, in noting that the men who came to Washington to help in the defense program did not include "holding company lawyers or executives." To point his sarcasm on Republican Congressional opposition he twice rhythmically referred to "Congressmen Martin, Barton and Fish," to...
In the chill, foggy morning the President, a navy cape thrown over his shoulder, stood on the rear platform of his car, waved to a crowd at Johnstown while a high-school band played and cheers thundered in vast wavelike surges against the train. Down the Conemaugh River the train...
He had heard more boos, catcalls, razz-berries in more States than any other man since Herbert Hoover; he had argued with more hecklers than anyone but John Barrymore; he had had more assorted sizes and kinds of vegetables thrown at him than anyone since old Mississippi showboat days.
Ten Willkie speeches fitted into a pattern in which specific legislative and economic proposals alternated with general discussions of Wendell Willkie's basic political views. In Los Angeles he talked of taxation, in San Francisco, of foreign policy, in Portland, of power, in Seattle, labor, in Omaha, the farm...