Word: shooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life in Massachusetts as the baked bean, the sacred cod and the Bunker Hill Monument. Portly Democrat Paul Dever, a seasoned performer and a spellbinder among the masses, who had croaked his way to national TV fame as keynoter at the Democratic Convention last summer, had looked like a shoo-in winner. Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street." But in his campaign, Herter combined polite persuasion (best effort: small pizza parties arranged by friends) with...
...carrot look," said Gimbels, by wearing big collars, rounded jackets, yoked shawls, standaway necklines and stoles. You get the carrot look by wearing slim, clinging skirts. If you will insist on full skirts, for reasons aesthetical or anatomical, you shoo the fullness to the rear and never wear more than one petticoat. It's [also] possible to look utterly 1953 by standing on your head...
Tonight's game, however, looks like a shoo-in from any angle. The Crimson, which tied B.U. last weekend, and played better than the Terriers in the process, takes on a Tufts squad that lost to B.U. 14 to 1 in one of its three games...
Funds for the construction of the building came from interest on a 17 million dollar bequest left to the University in 1902 by Gordon McKay, an engineer-turned-inventor who accumulated a tremendous fortune from the royalties on a shoo-making machine he designed...
...size of the crowds, the public library in Hutchinson, Kans. might have had the Mona Lisa on exhibit last week. "They want to keep looking," said the librarian happily. "We have to shoo them out." The big attraction at the library's annual all-Kansas art show: one of the first U.S. exhibits of an avid Sunday painter and onetime Kansas boy. His name: Dwight D. Eisenhower. On opening day, 1,500 people flooded the library's tiny gallery; by week's end, 3,500 more had come to see how Ike paints...