Word: toot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Ed Stettinius hired a hall (the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall) for $478.20, the bill to be paid by himself and team. Some 2,500 employes-clerks, decoders, secretaries and porters-heard the U.S. Marine Band toot out Colonel Bogey March and El Capitan and then watched as Ed Stettinius, with unflagging enthusiasm, presented his new assistants...
...keep youngsters under 15 off the streets, Quebec City imposed a 9 p.m. curfew, signalled with one long toot on airraid sirens (actual raids will be announced by higher-pitched wails...
Hail & Farewell. In Chelsea, Mass., Ragpicker Thomas Masco found $1,450 in an old mattress, went on a toot, died...
Frankie Baker, who says she shot Johnny in 1899, went to court in St. Louis to claim $250,000 damages for humiliation caused her by the movie made out of the famed blues song. Among her claims: there was no "root-a-toot-toot"-only a solitary shot...
...Prolonged Study." Most apathetic spot in the country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...