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Slant-eyed hooligans, brazen infidels, gathered at the fence to hoot at volleyball and Christianity. Came a troop of well-organized students from a nearby Chinese government school and joined the hooligans, broke down the fence, swarmed upon the volleyball field. The converts, attacked, left off their game, flew with their fists to the defense of their faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Exercise | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...about an owl that had flown into his bedroom the previous night. It was a common screech owl, and perched first on his bed post, then on the clothes press. The President regarded the owl steadily; the owl regarded him. The President made no utterance; the owl did not hoot. "He was not a noisy owl," said the President. "He came quietly, went quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Apr. 26, 1926 | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TIMES FOUR | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...Cambridge undergraduate is not herded willy-nilly into chapel and as a body he doesn't give a hoot for a chapel and hardly two hoots for organized religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Tennessee | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

Manhattan theatre managers have been banking heavily on the advent of swarms of delegates to the Democratic National Convention to bolster up the Summer attendance at shows. How much patronage will actually flow to the theatres from the Convention is a question causing scepticism among the wise or hoot-owls. Broadway dopsters figure that many of the practiced delegates will expect to go to shows on passes, on the sheer strength of being delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

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