Word: toot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want a musician to beat on a drum, Or a trumpet ta toot, or a banjo to strum, You can't do a single thing 'til you hear from Petrillo. Petrillo. Petrillo...
Spend one day on that field and you'll never forget Dick Harlow. Say what you will of other coaches, at Harvard and anywhere else--but when they got out on that practice field with Dick, Harlow is boss. And everyone knows it. One toot from his whistle and pandemonium suddenly turns into haste, haste of players and coaches alike to get to where Dick is. Harlow takes the C-team for five minutes, and for five minutes the scrubs are the hottest outfit on the field...
...Mistress Mine (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) brought the Lunts back to Broadway for the first time in over three years. It did not bring them back in anything worth a toy locomotive's toot, but long before the curtain fell, the glittering first-night audience had ceased to care. The Lunts, as usual, had triumphed in themselves. They had once again proved their magic in vehicle jobs, in turning pushcarts into floats...
...Jack Benny keeps three soundmen hopping every time he enters the mythical safe-deposit vault beneath his house. The soundmen squeak doors, blow sirens, ring bells and toot horns to further the legend of Benny's penny-pinching. Studio audiences find it sidesplitting...
There are still large sections of the world where Canada means Eskimos, Indians and red-coated Mounties who look like Nelson Eddy. To right such misconceptions, the Government last week decided to toot a more unromantic horn. To replace the temporary Wartime Information Board, born in 1942 solely to publicize Canada's war effort, the Government created the Canadian Information Service...