Word: hue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was the bugaboo. It is youth. What frightened Dr. Wirt was the discovery that he was 60 years old, and that his young secretary had more to do with government than he had. . . . He was not going to let on how old he was, so he raised the hue and cry over brains, and it was a false scent, as the folks found out. It's not the professors that politicians are afraid of in Washington. It's the assistant professors...
Until the schools adopt truly educational programs, the hue and cry about reduced budgets, etc., is not really important. I say this in spite of the fact that my livelihood depends on those same budgets and I have felt the influence of the most extreme demand for economy...
Sorley Boy, Southern Hero and two more went down at the first fence. At Becher's Brook for the first time in history, no one fell. Southern Hue, an outsider, was in front. Past the grandstand on the first time around, Gregalach, the Irish gelding who won in 1929, was leading, with Delaneige second, Forbra, 50-to-1 winner in 1932, a close third and Golden Miller, going easily, just behind. The field narrowed in the straightaway and made for the Canal Turn, the horses tiring now and their riders, in bright silks, holding them in for the high...
...commercial enemy. Bonfils and his "Denver Post" have been held up in magazines and less full-blooded papers as the dual climax of bawdy journalism; they have been ridiculed as cranks and denounced as blackmailers their saga has been amplified and coloured even beyond its own rich Western blood-hue. And I refer to the Post anthropomorphically with reason; Bonfils dubbed it "The Big Brother," and such it remains...
...walked dizzily in circles for a while, finally made his way back to his father's house by bus, train and cab. All the way home he kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held him 22 days. Safe in his father's home he told a piteous tale of beatings, confinement and fright, then collapsed sobbing...