Word: toot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toot...
...innovator of the House Plan, has swelled triumphantly, somebody has tried to prick the bubble by cracking the old one of "I've heard that before." After patiently enduring the quips and cranks of newspapers' showering encomium on Harvard, the demure and reticent damsels of Radcliffe have determined to toot their own horn. "Gallons of printer's ink," they believe, have been wasted in lauding Harvard's "adventurous spirit" while they, who have had a house plan for decades, are enduring the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes...
...parents, relatives and friends of seven of the 15 girls would not believe that everything is all right. "Help, help, police!" they cried, but they got no help, and with a derisive toot the locomotive began to puff and chuff. Gretchen and the other young women waved goodbye, and the richly dressed old woman sprinkled eau de cologne on her handkerchief, dabbed her forehead. At Hamburg, like the watchful and virtuous chaperone of a bevy of schoolgirls, she shepherded her 15 charges aboard the spick-and-span steamer Eubee...