Word: phooey
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...Capitol at Atlanta, 70 miles away. At their head was a jalopy flying red and black streamers and bearing Student Leader Alpha Fowler Jr., son of a State legislator. Behind came placards: We Don't Want a Discredited University. . . . Keep Politics Out of the University. . . . Talmadge, Phooey...
...PHOOEY...
...Novelist Kathleen Norris, Oldster Jafsie Condon, go-between in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, huge, lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, and Journalist John T. Flynn, foe of the New Deal and intervention, sat on the platform. There also sat Anne Lindbergh, author of "The Wave of the Future." "Phooey on England!" screamed a woman in the crowd dominated by New York Irish and other anti-British partisans...
Across the front of the United Mine Workers Building in Washington, the morning after election, pranksters hung a huge sign: "RESIGNATION ACCEPTED." In soap letters on the door they scrawled: "Lewis phooey." "The people's choice-Roosevelt...
...after getting bopped on the head with a shovel, and the nonchalant feat of accompanying the Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody with his razor while shaving a frightened customer are as good as anything he did in the era of "The Kid" and "The Circus." Naturally he plays Adenoid Hinkel, the Phooey of Tomania, superbly. But here he is moving in a strange and discordant world of realistic and bitter social satire that just doesn't fit in. And when at the end of the picture he steps out of both roles and delivers a long and stirring plea for unity...