Word: booted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scoop, his latest, is Caldwell in character, Wodehouse in plot. Mrs. Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents...
...river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself in one trip and made a profit of $41,000 to boot...
REGARDING P-96'S PERPETUAL SUBSCRIPTION {TIME, MAY 9, 16}, UNLESS PROPOSITION IS A JOKE, WILL GLADLY TRADE SATURDAY EVENING POST, FORTUNE AND READER'S DIGEST WITH A SWELL HUNTING DOG OR A GOOD-LOOKING WIFE TO BOOT, OTHERWISE WILL PAY ORIGINAL PRICE...
...Senator Henry L. Hess, who received oblique White House endorsement through letters from Secretary Ickes and Nebraska's George W. Norris. Governor Martin and his sturdy Law & Order platform were edged out, 57,727 to 50,905. Uncertain whether the President or labor had given him the harder boot, Old Iron Pants growled: "The results have in no way changed my convictions...
...broken hearts, romantic orchestra leaders, and wisecracking business managers. Unfortunately for Miss Henie, she has again been paired with Don Ameche, who should be pulling his darling little black mustache and muttering "foiled again"; and this time Ethel Merman and her fire-alarm voice have been thrown in to boot. But nothing can spoil Sonja Henie; her skating alone saves the day and makes the picture well worth going...