Word: hookey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loudspeaker when it was working again Convict Mooney poured the sorry tale that has become his lifework. (In his San Quentin cell the walls are lined with 20 volumes of legal records in his case.) Rambling back to his childhood, he explained how a beating when he played hookey from school "made Tom Mooney rebel"; how his activities as an agitator caused San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to take "possession of the District Attorney's Office"; how when the Preparedness Day bomb exploded he and his wife were elsewhere. Said he: "Tom Mooney and Fate were...
...Three of the city's 810 schools, he said, had been circularized with pamphlets telling children to become "class soldiers for a class war." Some of his principals exhibited pamphlets found on their pupils which read: "Down with the schools, the flag, the principals!" They told how scholars played hookey on May Day, played "escape from prison" in place of hide-&-seek. Viewed with alarm was a 15-year-old caught on the subway with books by Lenin, Scott Nearing and Harvard's Professor Felix Frankfurter...