Word: foofaraws
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...convention began, the frustration was as tangible as the mammoth blow-up pictures of Dewey that stood about everywhere in Chicago. The thumping bands, the badges, the pretty girls and all the time-honored foofaraw failed to charge up the Republican batteries to the sparking point. The great engine just would not turn over-at the start...
...fearing that any such authority would be weighted too much on the side of British and Commonwealth interests, was willing enough to agree on international standards and an international advisory body, but wanted to leave the actual administration to each country concerned. , Out of last week's foofaraw, four revealing points emerged...
Atlantic City is not what she used to be. The annual Miss America contest last week was conducted so genteelly, with such oppressive decorum, dignity and délicatesse that many a customer, innocently seeking foofaraw and the stimulating sight of rows of good-looking legs, finally wandered off to drown his disappointment...
...Congressmen were members of a joint committee on war minerals, looking into a possible solution of the impending U.S. petroleum shortage. The show was staged by Dr. R. R. Sayers, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. But despite all the foofaraw, the Congressmen's ride was less epoch-making than it seemed. The plain scientific fact is that at the 1941 rate of consumption the U.S. is not likely to need coal for gasoline for at least 200 years. Reasons...
Understanding and sharing his Negroes' love for foofaraw, Lieut. Colonel Wood has gone the limit to give the 41st splash and dash. His companies are organized by sizes: all the men in any company are within an inch of the same height (Company A's men are five feet, eleven inches and over; Company F's, five feet six and under). When the 41st was born, it had no band and wanted one badly. A Negro sergeant collected some battered drums and bugles, made them do until the regiment got a real band. Now the band leads...