Word: hooey
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...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...
...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...
...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...