Word: hooey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting men . . . when he made his recent statement. . . . The men returning from this war are going to be American Legion members, pulling as one, to rebuild homes, obtain jobs and be fairly represented in official offices. Your "just deserts" of dead Japs and Nazis is just so much hooey, and won't get you nor any other man anything after the flag-waving is over...
...much-touted belief in production winning the war may yet prove to be even more hooey than it has so far. Mass can quite easily become mess-if it hasn't done so already. Personally, I have more faith in quality than in quantity, a faith that the showing of two good planes and the oft-mentioned-via Churchill-few good men helped strengthen. Next came the Zero, an unusual plane and a good one, in that it was not constructed according to the orthodox pattern. Then came Rommel and his few, good high-velocity guns. And what will...
...Arice's around right end," lisped Hu Flung Hooey ocC, as his spirits got Dampier and Dampier...
...Wilson one get rid of this wretch," Hooey shouted, annoyed. "Of course we'll take Dartmouth into Camp, Antaya knot in their scalp lochs. I Kast my vote for Jawn...
...dynamic Mrs. Dorothy Christie, wife of a Montreal ski maker, most women's war work is "a lot of hooey." Embarked on a hooeyless project of her own design, she is now collecting the last of a flood of dimes, quarters and dollars from other Canadian women named Dorothy, which should in a week or so pay for a Spitfire for the R.A.F...