Word: hurrah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked a man inside a great box sign, inexplicably made up in a long beard, top hat, and dark glasses. The sign was stapled over with dust jackets of The Last Hurrah...
...What's this Last Hurrah business, Mary?" one launder-woman asked the other as they pushed through the crowd outside...
...Grace. While he was busy buying up such surefire successes as The Last Hurrah, Wald also found time to write to 10,000 librarians all over the world, asking for the names of their most popular books. As a result of the poll, he has since bought D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (an overrated but filmable story of British miners) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (a-nearly unfilmable tale of four-letter words and high-level adultery...
After reading about Russia's pigboat fleet, I considered it a welcome change to know that Uncle Sam is finally doing something about the threat of enemy subs. Hurrah for Rear Admiral Thach and his men of the Navy's ASW (antisubmarine warfare) [Sept. 1]. Maybe now the Navy will show the public that they can do more than just eat good chow and shoot craps...
...Boston's indestructible, scallawaggish ex-Mayor James Michael Curley, 83, who claims in tones of delighted outrage that he is the model of the indestructible, scallawaggish politico in The Last Hurrah, caused hurrahs among movie pressagents and headline writers: he filed for an injunction against the Boston showing of the novel's movie version. Court hearing has been set for this week, but chances are slim that Boston, or any other place, will be deprived of seeing the Boss's adventures as portrayed by Spencer Tracy...