Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half years ago Parliament, hoping that England would rule the winds as she ruled the waves, heard a Cassandra hoot: "The R-33 flew 800 hours and burst. The R-34, which flew across the Atlantic, afterward burst. The R-35 burst when inflated. The R-36 flew 397 hours and burst. The R-37 was never completed. The R-38 flew seventy hours and burst over Hull in August 1921, with a heavy loss of life. The R39 was unfinished. The R-40 flew seventy-three hours and burst." Those airships had cost England $12,000,000, had flown...
According to the Harkness Hoot, named in honor of the charitable Edward S. Harkness, Yale has but a short span of moagre years before her. The oldtime meditation and culture have fled the university cloisters and, in their stead, have come cynicism and sophistication. The mellow beer that mocked the hearts of the fathers has become bad gin for the raging sons. Things have come to a pretty pass...
Herbert Cameron, Negro, 16, said he had witnessed these proceedings. The news spread; a crowd gathered about the gaol, increased during the day to more than 1,000. About 9 p. m. Hoot Ball, father of Mary, called to confer with Sheriff Jacob Campbell. A weak & sickly man, he emerged to find the crowd augmented by a group of men from Fairmount, Ind., Deeter's home. They pressed in on him, knocked him down...