Word: hoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifth Century came the Angles, from somewhere on the bleak coast of the Baltic. Ships brought them, and when their kings died they were buried in ships with their bows pointing toward the sea. Last week on a hilltop estate near Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, diggers unearthed for a Mrs. E. M. Pretty a funeral ship that had lain untouched under a mound of earth some 13 centuries...
...Oslo Kathleen Norris whose eight books have been translated into 13 languages, Sigrid Boo (rhymes with Hoo) at 40 makes her first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...
...false whiskers, page 5 a peepshow. Other features: a two-way editorial ("Can this go on? Sure! No!"), a page of letters to readers ("instead of printing letters from readers who tell us how lousy our magazine is"). The back cover, an "acquaintance maker," says: "Yoo hoo! How's about a date tonight? (All you have to do is take a seat opposite a pretty girl and hold the magazine so that she can see this...
...After the game I wanted to meet you and also get your autograph, but circumstances prevented it. (Boo hoo!--'I'm not crying, that's rain in my eyes'). You know something--I've always been an ardent Navy fan in the past, but now suddenly find myself following the Yales. What's the answer? ('Can it be the gypsy in my soul...
Calling attention to typhus, smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis and venereal disease, the League's Health Committee pessimistically declared: "The diseases enumerated above do not exhaust the list of possible epidemics which may result from military operations in China or from their repercussions." Dr. Victor Hoo Chi-tsai, China's representative on the Health Committee, asked that anti-epidemic units be sent to China without delay. For this the League's Assembly immediately provided...