Word: wahoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lloyd's of London (Twentieth Century-Fox). In The House of Rothschild (1934), Producer Darryl Zanuck imparted to a waiting world the news that the Battle of Waterloo was won by George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...
...Naval Academy I was the member of a menagerie which an upperclassman collected from among the lowly plebes for the purpose of mild hazing. My place of honor was, as the "Dodo" bird, no uncertain one. I recall that I condescended to associate, at intervals, with the "Wahoo Wahoo" bird and several other fowl of lesser degree. This lasted about one month - since that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact I have no nickname, possibly "Cy" or Johnny or Jack. You have my permission to discontinue...
...Wahoo Wahoo's Associate...
Desperadoes Wahoo (Jack Oakie) and Jim (Fred MacMurray), separated from their leader Sam McGee (Lloyd Nolan) by a sheriff's posse, join the legendary Lone Star police force to facilitate their operations as cattle thieves. It has an opposite effect. After a brush with the redskins in which Wahoo is wounded and Jim emerges a hero, Ranger esprit de corps creeps into Wahoo, Jim begins to eye the Ranger boss's daughter. Thereafter both take their chores with increasing seriousness until the final test of their loyalty comes in the order to get their old friend...
...last minute, had to send out for extra cots for its 600 female patrons. Popeyed, Omaha's citizenry gaped at the husky visitors, most of them over 30, who resolutely dropped the Mrs. from their names, gulped vast quantities of beer, sang their own bowling songs, whooped the Wahoo song in honor of nearby Wahoo, Neb. But what surprised Omaha most was to find that, aside from stenographers and salesgirls who sent ball after ball into the gutters, certain women could bowl as well as certain...