Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Marilyn Krug, 20-year-old daughter of the Secretary of the Interior, enjoyed one of those girlish honors that are tailor-made for looking back on later. At a ball she was crowned Queen of the President's Cup Regatta (speedboat whoop-te-do) by the very careful Secretary of Agriculture...
...postpone celebrating so long as the St. Louis Cardinals had a slim mathematical chance of tying them. At Ebbets Field, as in Yankee Stadium, the spotlight had to seek out the manager. Baseball's winning managers, 1947 style, were a long way from the loudmouth, whoop & holler style of Leo (The Lip) Durocher...
...Townsendites met in Washington's 5,000-seat Uline Arena. The meeting got off with a whoop when two exuberant ladies saw California's placid, lantern-jawed Dr. Townsend, the 80-year-old founder, entering the jammed hall. They jumped up and began to chant...
Last week Mrs. America, an Ohio brunette with four children (TIME, Nov. 25), decided after all to give up the prize money and cross-country whoop-te-do and stay home with the kids. So now Mrs. America was Mrs. Fredda Acker, a South Carolina redhead (with just one child), who had been judged second best. She said she was thrilled...
California's mushrooming clothing industry had plenty to back all of this whoop and hurrah. Last year the industry (No. 4 in the state) did a business of $320,000,000, up almost 500% over 1939. This year it expects to gross $400,000,000, making it even with Chicago as the nation's second biggest fashion center. Some sunny Californians predict that California's dress business will zoom in a few years to a round billion, not far behind New York's, biggest in the world...