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...evening a fireworks display. But more fascinating than spectacles, drills or speeches by oldsters about Scout ideals was the extracurricular activity in which all 25,000 assiduously engaged-swapping. To Washington they had brought a strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near the camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: National Jamboree | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Referring to the recent report that a large group of students were planning to stage a Model World War in the Yard, Charles R. Apted '06, Yard police chieftain, announced "I don't give a hoot about a Model World War, but if it starts and gets out of bounds, we'll take care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APTED PROMISES PROTECTION IF MODEL WAR MATERIALIZES | 4/27/1937 | See Source »

...advantage the University Theatre has over any other movie house in the Boston area is the inertia of rest. Even if the average patron gave a hoot for the quality of what he saw on the screen, the energy required to get into town to see some super-classic would be prohibitive. The man with the cinemaitch merely wanders to the University and takes what comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: *The Moviegoer* | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...hoot at Yale, where the dean, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VERSATILE DEAN | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...known to natives as the Hoot, Toot and Whistle) which last month let excursionists ride in the locomotive cab, fire the 44-year-old engine, ride on the top of cars for 22 of its 24 miles of track up the Deerfield River valley from the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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