Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tony Stralla said the Rex alone cost him $600,000. Mayor Fletcher Bowron (whose closing of Los Angeles gambling nightspots last year vastly improved Tony's trade) estimated the Rex's "take" at $300,000 per month. When local officials tried to shoo him away or close him up, Tony Stralla was upheld by California's Court of Appeals: his ships were beyond the three-mile limit, beyond State jurisdiction...
...French cinema interests are pushing legislation to shoo U. S. films out of France by eliminating double features...
Harvard Law School students in Warren Hastings dormitory presented a petition to Dean James M. Landis yesterday protesting that they are being treated like "little boys" in being obliged to shoo girls out of their rooms at 7 o'clock at night. Make it 10:30 o'clock, they urged...
...when interviewed yesterday, said, "Fifteen minutes practice of Yoga in a calm state of mind is a more satisfying form of relaxation than a double feature at the U. T. Supreme concentration can be reached only by cleansing the intestines and working up. To purify the mind one must shoo out any angry or bad thoughts like birds from a limb...
...Westerner, likes nothing better than to print pictures of cacti and donkeys in the columns of reader-letters which he compiles every month under the heading "Sunset Gold." He gets some fairly flavorsome inquiries from his readership. Samples: "Dear Mr. Editor, I am troubled with buzzards. How can I shoo them out of my eucalyptus grove...