Word: wahoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth has been doing it for many, many years, so there must be something to it. Ever since 1895 to be exact, the fraternity houses have been completely deserted one cold March night, and everyone whose heart beats in the rhythm of "Wahoo" is a part of the congregation in Webster Hall, which, with a sort of religious exaltation, is celebrating the rites of Dartmouth Night...
...responsible for that. Hell of a thing anyhow--having to usher on the Dartmouth side. Showing those belligerent guys to their seats. Almost afraid to yell for Harvard. Having to listen to them cheer when any decent person would moan, and vice versa. Standing silent while their queer, savage Wahoo swelled and echoed. Well, here come some more of them. . . . Show your tickets. Keep moving, please...
...Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered work relief...
...known as barnacles-on-society, and commonly referred to as "scalpers," but somewhat longer terms have sometimes been applied to them by rougher company. They are no relation to the Indians who roamed the plains of yore, although their methods have some points of similarity. However, these do not wahoo; they whisper...
...Wahoo wahoos" from one end of the field marked the spot where a Jayvee eleven was putting on the Dartmouth plays for Varsity inspection. Working from a single wingback formation, the Indians usually go on the warpath with a solid phalanx of blockers blazing the trail, and the coaches are busy devising strategy to keep MacLeod from breaking loose and at the same time not leave the secondary open to the best aerial attack Dartmouth has had since the advent of Coach Blaik. This is really quite a problem, but it is comforting to know that Blaik...