Word: toot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toot for Toot...
...compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by André Maurois is unfortunate...
...blew a long blast on the horn. Out of the house scrambled Lore and two Cleveland girls who were visiting at his home: his cousin, Vivian Gold, 15, and her friend, Anna May Harrison, 16. All piled into the car; Wheatley snapped on the lights, gave the horn another toot, and away they drove through the quiet streets of Ypsilanti to a cinema...
...River flew up as if by prearrangement. In them stood thousands of employes of the mail order house. They cheered. They shouted. They waved their arms. They tossed out rolls and rolls of ticker tape and other paper supplied by the management. Their noise and excitement blended with the toot of tugs and the blare of bands along the river...
...they did love." Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits. Then it appears that Johnnie is philandering with a lady called Nellie Bly.* Frankie learns where an assignation is being kept by Johnnie and Nellie. Three times she shoots him ("roota-toot-toot") because she feels "he done her wrong." The ballad can be sung in about 20 minutes. It would be less tedious if Mr. Kirkland's play took no longer to unfold. Frankie is Anne Forrest; Johnnie is Frank McGlynn...