Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 20 little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support...
William Harlan Hale, who during his senior year at Yale founded and edited "The Harkness Hoot," has completed his first book, "Challenge To Defeat," which Harcourt, Brace and Company will publish on May 12th...
...almost always contains a murderer, a lunatic, a butler or a ghost. This time the lunatic is Stuart Erwin. He thinks that he is Napoleon and his lugubrious schizophrenia prompts him to describe Claudette Colbert as "La Duchesse" and to murmur 'Waterloo!" with the pensive intonations of a hoot-owl. His resourceful guards recapture him by singing "La Marseillaise." Meanwhile Claudette Colbert's squeals grow less indignant...
...otherwise febrile and careless issue of the Harkness Hoot appears a forceful broadside against the Yale School of Drama. In this trenchant indictment of a strictly vocational institution glorified by an attractive title into a School of arts, the writer charges that the present institution was founded by money from Wall St. Alumni for the sole purpose of advertising their alma mater through its possession of a superior School of Drama...
Vibrant though it is with the overtones of the Harkness Hoot's unrelenting radicalism, R. S. Child's "Portrait of Undergraduate Yale" in the Nation is nevertheless a careful and well-balanced analysis. The article is specially interesting for its candid picture of the relations between academic and non-intellectual activities...