Word: boose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At Pontiac, Mich., young men in dirty overalls began to show Wendell Willkie the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's political muscles. They came out of automotive and machine-tool plants to boo and Bronx-cheer. Pontiac-typically Midwest, a small town with a one-street business district-had just...
Cheers and boos rocked the House, above them Churchill's voice barking: "I'll take the liberty of sending the honorable gentleman a copy of one of his interventions. . . ."
At first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator...
Next a Baltimore delegate, Edward J. Colgan Jr., nominated Millard Tydings interminably, pausing at last to remark doggedly "... I have given you but a partial picture . . ." to a cacophony of heartfelt boos. For Tydings there was but one feeble cheer. Wright Moody, a ponderous grey-haired Texan, nominated John Nance...
Said Delegate Durbin: "The only thing I don't like in Chicago is the Tribune and the Hearst newspapers." There were cheers and boos. "For God's sake, Mr. President, if you are listening in, let's have someone like Jim Farley! . . ." Then Rebel Durbin came to...