Word: toots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Edmund Sterrett, partner in Price, Waterhouse & Co. (accountants), Dawes Plan expert, at Redding Ridge, Conn. Built in 1911 for the late William Luttgen, Morgan partner and commodore of the New York Yacht Club, the estate contains a chain of ponds through which the old commodore used to toot proudly but briefly in a miniature steam yacht...
Some 20 little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support...
...Toot! toot! the Duke of Zaragoza used to blow the locomotive whistle of Spam's Royal Train, for His Grace was Hereditary Engineer to the Royal Family...
Merrily last week Spain's Presidential Train chuffed from Valencia to Madrid carrying President Alcala Zamora, driven by the Duke of Zaragoza with many a toot! toot...
...candidate, not that "Prohibition that does not prohibit" is desirable but history indicates that "dripping Wet officials" and all kinds of graft and immorality go hand in hand and in their Mutual Admiration Society, "reciprocity" is their password and their slogan is "An aye for an aye and a toot for a toot...