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Word: doo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack and Jill have a poultry farm, Where all the fowls walk arm in arm; They don't worry and they don't care, It's no Misery Farm down there! What's the reason? I'll tell you- Cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...boundary between freedom and license is not to be forgotten. To steer a proper course between these two points is the responsibility of student editors. When, as in the recent case of the alleged "nasty humor" in the Back Bay issue of the M. I. T. Voo Doo, the heads of publications fall to carry out this essential part of their program, there arises the delicate question of censorship from the outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER LIBERTY | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

...reassuring feature of the case at Tech is the immediate response of an undergraduate committee in meeting the situation. Since remonstrations were necessary against the policy of the Voo Doo in publishing the Back Bay number, that they should come from other students and not from the Institute authorities saved the day for those who place faith in the responsibility of student leadership. Thus censorship comes about as the natural reaction of public sentiment and is an as inherent part of the freedom of student activities as the right to freely criticize policies of university administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER LIBERTY | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

...personally shy Hoover, who frequently struggles ineffffectively for the right word, draws little doo dads on a sheet of paper when he talks, and sometimes seems to derive embarrassment even from the act of shaking hands...

Author: By Charles Merz, | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

...mind, from which he would draw the dark memories of the past. His wife, Miriam, combines the pleasant foibles of satyriasis and astrology, while Janet, her daughter, is a nympholept. Hugh, Pride's secretary and Miriam's lover, and Sally, the West African negress, addicted to voo-doo, complete this attractive menage. But we should mention Tod, the giant police-dog, whose essentially surly nature contributes materially to the plot. The advent of Oscar, the musician,--who tells the story,--with a set of brand-new and, comparatively, healthy passions, precipitates matters. Things move from bad to worse...

Author: By J.e. BARNETT ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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