Word: hooted
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...Hoot, Toot & Whistle Sirs...
...relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates in the stomach, which the patient soon learns to treat like a bag-pipe's bellows. At his will he burps up puff after puff, makes sounds. First controlled sounds are "gut," "hut," "hoot," "who." To the uninitiated they sound like strangled grunts. Although these people eventually learn to enunciate clearly, their voices always have a flat, lifeless tone...
...current issue of the Harvard Advocate fails to fulfill the promise of its motto, "Dulce eat Periculum." A preview can, however, parade several articles which make lively reading. William Harlan Hale, Yale 1931 and one of the founders of the famed "Harkness Hoot," finds several differences between Harvard and Yale: that both insist on the separation of education and politics, but that Harvard more often actually separates them; that though Yale looks older, Harvard is older; that Harvard families are the older families. These differences are obvious, Mr. Hale thinks, because they are superficial. Deep-down, he assures us, Harvard...
...landed a $10,000 contract, had to have it approved by a court. For Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. young Actor Cooper will next month make a series of recorded programs with such of his older Hollywood colleagues as Fred & Paula Stone, Polly Moran, Patsy Kelly, Dolores Costello Barrymore, Hoot Gibson, Jack Holt, Elissa Landi. For working in Jackie's program, Cinemactress Anne Shirley has already been promised...
...much troubled at my heart with the great owl I did kill last night while driving in Walthem. So drest myself, and back to the stump where, very sad, I left him. But, lo, the big bird was gone! Yet I know he must be dead for he did hoot violently when I to pick him up and then he to cough up some mouse's parts and then to close his white eyes and hoot no more. This I do not like too much for I have heard evil things of those witchy birds...