Word: hooey
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...themselves the "greatest seconds in the business." But True Confessions began three years after Macfadden's phenomenal True Story ; Modern Mechanics, started in 1928, changed its name to Mechanic Illustrated because Popular Mechanics objected. When Ballyhoo created a big, brief stir in 1931, the Fawcetts came up with Hooey. When LIFE scored, the Fawcetts brought out a picture magazine called Spot. Their No. 1 comic hero is wonder working, high-flying Captain Marvel, and he is currently court-bound as too close an imitation of Superman...
...Tutt. Last week, Tarheel voters gave the Democratic senatorial nomination, and thus the election, to Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced hooey), 66, a Southern gentleman with flowing locks and black claw-hammer coat, who looks like Arthur Train's lawyer, Mr. Tutt...
...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...
...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...