Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same terms that he had haughtily rejected. But he served notice that the strike would be on again Dec. i unless the "arrogant and brutal" mine owners came to terms. At a news conference, where he tried to look ferocious but looked instead like a tired and harried hoot owl, John L. tried to explain that it was not a retreat but simply a gesture of good will...
...Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes." Rose's laconic account of the end of a riot at his Texas Centennial Exposition ("The brawl was over") was elaborately transformed into "My savage cowboys became as well-behaved as [Paris] street urchins on the day of their First Communion...
...Detroit's Fire Commission Chairman Paxton Mendelssohn sought to equip battalion chiefs with hand extinguishers. He explained : "As it is now, if the chiefs come across a small fire all they can do is [wait] for the regular fire trucks. People hoot at them...
...Feed and flour bags had been used for years by farmers' wives for aprons, dresses, etc., but the cotton men decided to go after city folks too. A tougher and much more important job was to sell cotton bags to wholesale bakers; they didn't give a hoot about prints...
What helps make a Tallulah filibuster spellbinding is the famed voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...