Word: toot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They Beat Me." For the Fitzgeralds, as for many of their contemporaries, the big toot was on-what Scott called "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." In New York, Scott fought with waiters, and Zelda danced on dinner tables. They went wading in public fountains and tried to undress at the Scandals. No matter how much he wrote, Fitzgerald was continually in debt. By 1924, he was living at a $36,000-a-year clip. Two years earlier, he had published The Beautiful and Damned, the story of a rich idler's moral collapse. It had the same faults...
...Real Toot. The fiction, moreover, is in good part fact. Novelist Schulberg* was one of the young devotees who in the early '30s sat around Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, watched his creative fires exhaust themselves under the Hollywood pot, and remembered how those fires had lighted a generation on its way in such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby...
...weekend, Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg went to Dartmouth to daub themselves with campus color for a musical Fitzgerald was scripting. Into his recollections of that toot with one of the most single-minded tooters of his time, Schulberg has stirred almost everything else he knew about Fitzgerald, and everything he felt about Fitzgerald's self-neglected talents and the age they memorably expressed...
From the age of 14 on, most Indians go on a mass toot for every festival of the Inca, Christian and national calendars. Bolivia's independence day, last Sunday, which coincides with the fiesta of the Indians' well-beloved Virgin of Copacabana, set off a Class One or seven-day bender. But even on less special occasions, the Indians' consumption of crude corn chicha reaches fabulous proportions...
...Right now," barked Baruch. "Toot suite. Today . . . While we were stocking our homes with refrigerators and television sets, the Soviets were stocking tanks and radar...