Word: hoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...species of Panamanian civet cat called by the Chiriqui Indians the "Hoo-Hoo-Nah" was named Bassaricyon pauli by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences after its discoverer, Amateur Explorer Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr., Harvard classmate & friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose Philadelphia banking family have been generous Academy patrons...
...Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer," are abomina tions which insult his profession...
...been declared to dwell in the distortion of public opinion and in the misinformation of consistently biased newspapers. With the gradual development of a kind of rebuttal campaigning like the Smith-Robinson speeches and the proposed Communist vs. Capitalist arguments of Earl Browder and Hamilton Fish, Jr. political bally-hoo is soon likely to be tempered by more intelligent debates. Ready access to the microphone, its far-reaching power and its nation-wide publicity, make calling an opponent's false cards relatively easy and highly effective. Such suggestions as Owen D. Young made the other day at Rollins College, urging...
This in Japanese eyes put upon the murder an aspect which caused numerous Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's Son bursting into tears at the tender sentiments of pity penned in "maiden's blood...
Since Japan flouted its League obligations by puppetizing Manchuria before withdrawing from the League, the inescapable inference from Dr. Hoo's protest, an inference he adroitly left for others to draw, is that Japan cannot pull out of the League. "I deplore M. Avenol's conception of Japan's obligations, a conception which would weaken the Covenant!" cried Dr. Hoo. "Under such a conception any country could violate the Covenant and withdraw with impunity...