Word: boosterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laboratory experts have discovered that there is nothing better to eat at one o'clock on Thursdays." Finally the newcomer is told that his unit is his club and that if he doesn't like the people in it he is merely proving himself a knocker instead of a booster as it is his duty...
...subscriber to and booster for your valued publication, wishes to compliment you on the thoroughness with which you are covering Mr. Hoover's trip. The maps visualizing the route, and the brief interesting information regarding the countries visited is very refreshing to the average man, who is not so well informed about South American countries...
...until the April 9 issue of TIME, I was an ardent reader of and booster for the publication; but since reading that issue containing the wholly unnecessary account of the unfortunate tangle in which the two young sons of Ex-Governor Cox found themselves with the New York Police Department, I am "off" your magazine forever, unless appropriate amends are made...
...England is a backward, decadent section. Its factories are out-of-date; its inhabitants are idlers; its ideas have not yet emerged from the sperm-oil days. These words (or words less polite) have been spoken and applauded many times at booster meetings of towns to the West and to the South. When the Chicago Tribune castigates "the effete East," it usually refers to New England...
...Promoter. Ambitious to be Vice President, but doubtless open to persuasion, is Jesse Holman Jones of Texas. For four years he has been the Democratic Santa Claus. He is an astute banker and a big-scale builder as well as a booster. He can point with pride to having served with the late Henry P. Davison at International Red Cross conferences, representing President Wilson...