Word: hullabalooers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other Texans view the Goodnight buffalo hunt with alarm. Last week they raised hullabaloo before the Texas Legislature. J. Frank Dobie, Texas historian & author (Coronado's Children) flayed what he termed "going into a corral and shooting down so many milk cows." The Texas Senate passed a bill authorizing the State Game Commission to buy all the buffaloes it sees fit and forbidding the killing of all females and any bulls under ten years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe...
...Deal. National Dairy Products Co. last week withdrew its offer for Golden State Milk Products Co. stock. Minority stockholders of Golden State had protested that National's one-share-for-two proposal was unfair, raised hullabaloo...
...buoyed with a seven-starred flag (by 1947 the U. S. had joined a hegemony of North and Central American nations). Leaving at the Pole the last whale in the world (all others had died by 1935) the Dipsey blasted its way out of the Arctic, received a hullabaloo welcome from the newshawks...
PETER ARNO'S HULLABALOO-Peter Arno-Liveright ($3).* Imaginary characters are harder to create, oftener still-born than their flesh-&-blood brothers. In a lifetime of creative endeavor, few artists or writers succeed in making one character come alive for longer than it takes to read the book, see the picture. Artist Arno's pictured people are at the opposite pole from immortality, but at least two of them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans...
...sell. This explains the present popularity of "N. by E." and "Moby Dick" which have been made so desirable by Rockwell Kent's fine illustrations. A survey of Cambridge bookstores also discloses the Harvard man's predilection for the sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo" and the same thing by other artists in the "Third New Yorker Album." Those desiring more substantial reading are now concentrating on "Charles W. Eliot" by Henry James and on such bulky tomes as Priestley's "Angel Pavement" and Arnold Bennett's "Imperial Palace...