Word: hooey
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...these accusations frightened and fretful "Dodo" Farnsworth first replied: "It's a lot of hooey." So jittery he could barely stand erect, he finally pulled himself together long enough to be arraigned before a U. S. Commissioner and plead "not guilty." Held in the District of Columbia jail on $10,000 bail for a hearing next week, he disclosed his story...
Died. Roscoe Fawcett, 49, Minneapolis sportsman, brother and publishing partner of Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett (Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly, Hooey); in Rochester, Minn...
Clad in a blue topcoat and a black Homburg hat and carrying a horn-rimmed monocle and a gleaming Malacca stick, Captain Cullen sniffed and snorted: "This talk about insolent stewards is just a lot of g- -d hooey and lies. Why, there was not a steward logged [fined] except a couple for getting drunk. And I'd log 'em if there were any reason...
...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...