Word: hooey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throbbing, so Doran will have the radio going. Barely miss a skunk near the settling basin, screech to a stop behind Clary's new Ford 8 parked in front of the engineer's quarters. A little late, but "1933 marches on" into the yawping of ''Hooey'' P. Long's latest...
...largely a funny-picture book, and, if anything, less salacious than at birth. Such paid advertising as it can get, it takes, burlesqued or not. Of the crop of imitators which sprang up during Ballyhoo's initial success, all but one-"Captain Billy" Fawcett's Hooey - have disappeared...
...Bayonets will line up those who wilfully refuse to join the movement. The Roosevelt raw deal is the greatest boloney ever perpetrated. In eight weeks inventories will be at a maximum. If production hits the 1929 level 12,000,000 will still be unemployed. The country is being fed hooey." To another assemblage Howard Scott the Technocrat glided and, despite objections, mounted its platform. A hotel detective came running to stop the clamor. Howard Scott the Technocrat left. Then, rapidly, General Westervelt was obliged to go to Washington on Government business. Clarence Darrow was "tickled to death" to avoid...
...wasn't there, but I heard all about it. And your hockey team, why that bunch bought off the referees--I heard all about that, too. And you know, I think the Dartmouth drawl has this Harvard accent beaten a mile. They are both a lot of hooey, but I like them just the same...
Upon taking over Eye Opener, Mrs. Fawcett (who claims credit for having "planned the creation of Whiz Bang" with her ex-husband) hired as editor Wilkie Mahoney, one-time ace "gagman" for Publisher Fawcett's Whiz Bang, Smokehouse Monthly and Hooey (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930; Dec. 14, 1931). Also, it was reported, she issued orders to correspondents to put less smut, more gusto into their work. There will be a colyum (corresponding to Captain Billy's "Drippings from the Fawcett") in which she will identify herself as "Happy Divorcee," "Animated Annette," "Happy Hostess," "Torrid Toreador...