Word: shooing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Headwinds buffeted the Bowdoin and Peary as they sought to leave Etah harbor. They got only to Igloo-da-Houny, across Booth Sound. MacMillan made a last flight in one of the Navy amphibian planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were...
...applause, I am sore at heart and I lament and I feel as though I had spoken altogether in vain." Scholar, he was lecturing to scholars. His words were not meat, he thought, for the hounds of the press and, with an almost pathetic earnestness, he tried to shoo them away.* First, the Dean insisted that the New Testament contained no detailed guidance either for the making of sermons or for the conduct of modern civilization: "The gospel was good news, not .good advice. .. ,. . We can find no economic prin ciples in the Gospel...
...shoos away from her attractive, gambling husband. But she employs an old, old shoo: she saves money on the side. When the crash comes they depart to hatch a new life out of her nest...
...variety are cleverly complied and sung. Carson and Willard in "Something Different" have certainly chosen a good idea for they prove themselves right when they say it is something different that the public likes. One of the cleverest acts of the evening is that by Barns and Frabito in "Shoo's" in which plenty of snap and variety is used in their conversation and action, and is supplemented by remarkable and equally skillful mandolin playing. The Norris Twins and Harold West put on a beautiful series of dances which are set off by fine costumes and pleasing scenery...