Word: shooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plantation, when a tall, lean Presbyterian clergyman named John Miller Dickey founded the first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed to Lincoln University. After that its crises were all financial...
...stage by the end of Act II. When the hobo begins shooting, he hits a goldfish bowl. The innocent owner of the kidnap apartment, who happens to be the toughest and slickest criminal of them all, walks in and settles everything so well that the police arrest him, shoo the others away...
...Bavarian border. Supplementing the 22,000 regulars, the force is made up of drafts from the gendarmerie and the grey-shirted heimwehr. He did not add that twelve private airplanes contributed chiefly by members of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr organization were patroling the border to shoo back Nazi planes coming over with propaganda pamphlets. He did not add that every Chancellery but one in Europe knew what sword-handy Henry Bérenger, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French Senate, wrote last week in the Agence Economique et Financière: "It is useless to temporize...
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...Enid, Okla.. H. Young found five of his hens gone, a letter addressed to Lewis Burdick lying in the poultry-pen. He tok! officers that one of the missing hens would fall over in a fit if someone said "Shoo!" The officers went to Lewis Burdick's poultry-pen, said "Shoo!"' A hen fell over in a fit. Burdick was arrested...