Word: whooping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After another quick change, this time to their store clothes, Conductor Koussevitzky and his men gave Manhattanites their first taste of Serge Prokofieff's children's suite, Peter and the Wolf, made them whoop and giggle to hear Peter's duck (the oboe) quack mournfully inside the hungry wolf's stomach (three French horns). With the evening topped off with waltzes by Johann Strauss, Sibelius and Ravel, concertgoers felt that Henry Lee Higginson's band had kicked up its heels about as much as any self-respecting 58-year-old symphony had a right...
...floral classic. Apparently some feel that the public would prefer Texas Christian University to the Blue Devils. This opinion has been crystallized in the words of certain Californian sports writers, one of whom, Bill Henry, of the Los Angeles Times, says, "The Trojans apparently don't give a whoop who or what the public wants . . . a good many people are going to be of the opinion that the Trojans ignored their civic responsibility, in rushing to the decision to ask Duke...
...Governor Lehman of New York came for lunch and Franklin Roosevelt's understood purpose was to get his sore-tried friend to whoop up the New Deal in his campaign for reelection. Mr. Lehman, unforgetting foe of the Court Plan, returned to his stump with kind words for Franklin Roosevelt but no New Deal honey on his tongue...
...Honest") Harold LeClair Ickes, after his handsome salute to the Negro vote in Baltimore (TIME, Oct. 17), crossed the continent upon the first major trial-balloon ascension of the White House Janizariat, which seeks data on 1940. Ostensibly out to whoop up the New Deal for the Congressional elections and attend a few ceremonies at which his presence was appropriate, Mr. Ickes went armed with eight full-length addresses to deliver in twelve days (besides informal talks and short speeches...
...only the hustings but U. S. history seemed to be in Franklin Roosevelt's mind as, in his ten-car, air-cooled special train, he rolled westward out of Washington last week. Politician Roosevelt was out to whoop it up for his supporters in this autumn's Congressional elections. At the same time Statesman Roosevelt, midway of his second and (perhaps) last term as U. S. President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin...