Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the announcement of the editors that the "Harkness Hoot" will not be published this year, another colorful chapter in the history of Yale undergraduate publications comes to a close. The course of a radical publication at Yale follows a definite tradition, inevitably ending either in conservatism, extinction, or both. The "Hoot" has chosen the more consistent path...
...with misgivings that we view its passing. An apposition journal is usually a healthy intellectual influence, no matter how distasteful its attacks may be. And the assaults of early "Hoot" days were not lacking in virulence by any means. The jolts given to undergraduate complacency were many and telling. The frequent overstatement and violence were at least partially justifiable on the grounds that they undoubtedly drew marked attention to certain valid criticisms...
...Hoot" upon occasion did more than this. At times it was definitely constructive, even scientific. The analysis last year of the NRA anticipated by six months the present basis for the only well-founded objections to that legislative hodge-podge. The review of the English department was dispassionate and thoroughly sound. The specific recommendations for an extension of tutorial and seminarial instruction here were based on an intelligently formulated educational theory and were financially practical...
...Hore-Belisha, who is a light sleeper, has turned his attention to the problem of what to do about motorists who insist on sounding their horns, or hooters, late at night. Last fortnight Leslie Hore-Belisha sent bobbies out on their beats with orders to warn all motorists who hooted their hooters between 11:30 p. m. and 7 a. m. within a radius of five miles of Charing Cross. Last week he sent them out to arrest. Magistrates were told that it will cost scofflaws just $10 a hoot...
...make the race. Dapper and dashing Republican Hurley claims Oklahoma as his political stamping ground but he has lived so long across the Potomac from his Washington law office that he is now eligible to become a Virginia voter. But neither Mr. Hurley nor any other Virginian worth a hoot would make the race. So the Republicans gave up. Mr. Byrd will go back to the Senate for six more years, not by election but by default...