Word: hooey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them on their preferences for Republican nominee in 1936, exhorting them: "All this scared-rabbit talk about 'You can't beat a man with four billion dollars' is just the kind of propaganda weak-kneed Republican leaders have been swallowing for five years A lot of hooey! Let's get behind a leader with some guts for the fight and in 90 days you'll see a reborn Republican Party in this country . . . and with the battle cry 'Save the Constitution' sweeping all before it. Just remember Valley Forge...
...years Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith has been a $9-a-week brokers' clerk in Manhattan, fight promoter in Great Britain, biggest bear since Jesse Livermore, greatest bull since William Crapo Durant. The commodity in which he is always bearish is hooey. Every time President Hoover and Dr. Julius Klein said things were going to get better in 1930, the profane, pale-eyed Irishman unloaded his stocks. ("Sell 'em," said he. "They're not worth anything.") The commodity in which Ben Smith is always bullish is gold. Only U. S. director of Mclntyre Porcupine gold...
...That," said the instructor, "is just so much hooey spread by the pacifists...
...should go to those who would spend it well? I am Socialistic in a great many things, and this sort of thing makes me see more Right in the Left." Another legal action disclosed last week was that of the Duchess of Marlborough against the vulgar U. S. funnysheet Hooey. Sale of the magazine in Great Britain was stopped when the onetime Gladys Deacon of Boston took offense at a cartoon in the November issue. The cartoon: a dowager in her garden gapes at two scrawny rosebushes, with their roots close together, their stems intertwined, and their single blossoms cheek...
...turned out to date. Mr. Belloc has successfully evaded dullness and boredom in his tale of King Charles, and the reader will find him inspiring and enjoyable throughout. Mr. Linklater presents Queen Mary in all of her glory, with all of the activities carefully recorded. It's minus hooey, and is straight from the shoulder. Accurate historical facts and sound reasoning evolve into a work that is truly great in Mr. Bailey's presentation of the life of Alexander Hamilton. This is particularly timely in this period of increased interest in government...