Word: halloo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's general election campaign was enlivened by shouts of view halloo last week as the Tory Party, in full cry, prepared to close in on Harold J. Laski, Chairman of the Labor Party. The occasion was a remark which Laski, professor of political science and author of 19 books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have...
...view halloo began when M.G.M. announced plans to picturize Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eliza would be Negro Torch Singer Lena Horne; Southern Gentleman St. Clare, venerable Lewis Stone; Little Eva, Margaret O'Brien. Simon Legree was not cast, but the producer was to be Arthur Hornblow. Promptly, Negro spokesmen and liberal Whites spiked the plan of Hollywood's most conservative studio...
...glamour boys are getting rare and yet they say you'll find them there At Yale, at Yale most any time (and oh, so near to Vassar) The clink of glasses greets you too, and after dark the long halloo And slightly fried woo-woo, woo-woo of wolves that ogle Vassar. --The Yale Dally News