Word: hooeying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hooey to "the American genius for making his language" with such a word as "Jimplecute...
...Hoffman, who on the side is president and half-owner of York Oil Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into...
...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...