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Word: hoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat. Consistently, since 1931, radio editors had ranked them among the top dance bands on the air. For 20 years their gross had been near $1,000,000 a year. They had introduced more than 300 hits, such as Little White Lies, You're Driving Me Crazy, Boo-Hoo-and were still playing all of them the same old way. This year, the American Society of Teachers of Dancing thanked them with a Distinguished Service Scroll for consistently acting as a bulwark against "invasions by hordes of cynical jive extremists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Same Old Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...years ago to get up his own band, was just about the most disturbing thing since the secession of the South. In a way, all of the band members are in the family. If one musician dislikes a new song, out it goes, even if Tunesmith Carm (Coquette, Boo-Hoo) wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Same Old Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...there was joy in Sea Girt, N.J. There, vacationing Comic Fred Allen, who last year lost a clear-cut decision in Hoo-perratings to the monster giveaway Stop the Music, said: "It's about time radio was taken away from the scavengers and given back to the entertainers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Chance | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...since World War II by a four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should have gone something like this: "Jöst fanncie hhav'n' Jähn L. Luis com'n' oovah heeah, 'n' tell'n' ös hoo tee dee oor blödy jäbs. Ah'd see tee heem, 'Whin ye teeyek oor tü-füt-nane seams 'n' gives ös yah eet-füt seams, we might lissen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos, mah boy, is the greatest menace to hoo-manity th' world has ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Harvest Shmoon | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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