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Word: hooting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house the siren hooted mournfully, rose to a high electric scream. Tokyo waited breathless. Then came another hoot, longer, more mournful. Sadly Tokyo realized that the Empress Nagako had borne another girl, her third.* Emperor Hirohito still lacked a son. The heir to the throne was still Prince Chi-chibu, his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Two Hoots | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic flyer; to Hoot Gibson, cinemactor. A few days before the rumor Lyle E. Womack, divorced Elderman, now manager of a silver fox farm, philosophized, "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than it is to tame a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...hoot owls mate with wrens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

From the engine, three cars ahead, came a merry hoot, as the unsuspecting engineer blew his whistle at a crossing and the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Fire de Luxe | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Behold the Bridegroom" can't quite be laughed off, much as one may feel the urge. From pure politeness appropriate in a non-paying guest, this reviewer suppressed a nearly uncontrollable desire to hoot, jeer and shout "ham" during one of the worst first acts in memory. Then for no apparent reason Mr. George Kelly began to make sense through the mouths of a competent, but sorely taxed cast. The final impression was more than ordinarily disturbing. Here was a play, like it or not, and in its worst moments it brought to mind the old sentiment, "I wouldn...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

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