Word: honked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep from bumping into each other on the sidewalks at night, Berliners, harried by police who pounce on anyone striking a match, last week were rattling canes on the pavements or imitating old-time auto horns with guttural cries of "Honk, honk, honk...
Delivered by a Western Union messenger in a large box, Sibi was but one more example of the CRIMSON giving the Lampoon the bird, and like the unusual goose it is, Sibi immediately began to honk and throw the funnymen into confusion...
...usual, the educators were most distressed by their financial plight and by the Federal Government's failure to succor them. George Frederick Zook's swansong as U. S. Commissioner of Education was a harsh honk at President Roosevelt for blocking the gift of $75,000,000 which he was sure the House wanted to make to schools. Education's submerged "masses," the classroom teachers complained that many a city was dismissing them wholesale in favor of young, cheap substitutes...