Word: boose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delay. If he could answer the people, the press, the Convention, there remained the problem of answering the Democratic Party that was going into a campaign in which it would be unseemly for the President to take an active part. From a dimly lighted, peach-colored telephone booth in the...
From undergraduates and younger alumni came boos, hisses, cries of "Throw him out!"
More and louder boos. Cries of "Sit down!"
By this time the boos, mingled with a few cheers, were deafening. When Mr. Sigourney finished his speech, the crowd staged its confetti battle, fought with more vigor than enjoyment. That night Harvard was a house divided.
The audience were disgusted, and-being Brazilian-showed it. Smarting under their boos and hoots, the conductor of the Italian opera troupe stamped out of the theatre in Rio de Janeiro. To carry on the performance, the orchestra as one man boosted a 19109-year-old cellist to the conductor...