Word: hootingly
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...homely. Hungarian soul of the young cousin accepts everything, including her offhand promise to divorce her husband and make a respectable man out of her lover. But in the morning, when the impossible but wealthy husband arrives, she forces her night-owl to hoot some efficient lies that restore her to her spouse. The game of tag is over?and the youth is it. He finds he has been spending the night with a Fata Morgana?a will o' the wisp beauty, who dissolves with the morning mists. In its sense of the immense calamity of adolescent rebuff in love...
...expect that a Harvard team will find support from Harvard men only when it has a chance of winning. Least of all does one expect that undergraduates will not only lessen their cheering as the game goes against the Crimson but will also either leave the stands or hoot their team. Comparisons are odious--the following one should be odious enough to bring out the point: when the Yale football team returned from its defeat at the hands of Princeton last fall it was met at the station, in a pouring rain, by as large a crowd of students...
...Stein, 407 (Pitt); L. S. Stanford, 408 (Pitt); C. D. Halsey, 449 (Pr); G. Funk, 450 (Pr); J. M. Madden, 451 (Pr); R. S. Wilson, 452 (Pr); M. P. Dickenson, 453 (Pr); H. Pratt, 464 (Rut); P. Robinson, 465 (Rut); P. W. Chandler, 472 (Sw); H. I. Hoot, 475 (Sw); J. M. Braden, 533 (Y); C. L. C. Galt 534 (Y); E. D. K. Hamill, 535 (Y); E. Binney, Jr., 525 (Y); R. B. Munger, 536 (Y); A. W. Redfield, 537 (Y); A. Hubbard, Jr., 538 (Y); L. B. Walker, 539 (Y); W. J. Connolly, 519 (Y); W. B. Schleiter...
...should not, in being proud of our flag and our national anthem, fall to the level of the rabble, which hoots, throws stones, and riots when some slight form is omitted, not from an exalted and generous conception of the meaning of their nation and a desire to preserve its honor, but simply because, being a rabble, it loves to hoot, throw stones, and riot...
...little manual entitled "Parliamentary Tactics, or Rules for Debate," by H. W. Hoot, has just appeared. It is arranged in a way specially adapted for use by "the Chair" from such standard authorities as Roberts, Cushing, Matthias, Jefferson and Crocker. Where the authorities differ, the view most conformable to the latest and most thoroughly established usages of parliamentary law has been accepted...