Word: whooping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer Bateman skeptically stepped over to the river, then let out a whoop. Sure enough, there was a monster, "as big as a box car and as slick as a slimy elephant without legs." Farmer Bateman rushed off to Newport, six miles away...
...metals is now as wild as Wall Street's wildest days in stocks, copper soared above 17½?. So mad was the copper market that Business Pundit Bertie Charles Forbes quoted level-headed President Shattuck Gates of big Phelps Dodge Corp. as declaring: "This is no time to whoop things up, to send prices of copper skyrocketing. . . . The industry was making steady progress in a satisfactory way. It would be a pity to bring about hectic conditions which in the nature of things could not be expected to last." And as evidence of the industry's wholesome progress...
Until the past few years, the interest which this sport commanded was negligible. Neither the College at large nor even many of the players themselves cared to give more than a half-hearted whoop in Hades concerning its activity. Since then two events have intervened; first, Harvard joined the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, second, a thoroughly competent coach was appointed...
...zero. Bellowed the master: "Fine! In my class, Pushkin, everything ends in zero with you. Take your seat and write verses." He graduated from the Lyceum without honors but with a rising reputation as a poet. Rejoining his family in St. Petersburg, Pushkin plunged into gay life with a whoop, for three years hardly came up for air. Five feet six, curly-haired, stocky, with blubber nose and lips, long gilt fingernails, he was not handsome, but his bursting energy made him popular with a fast young set who called him "Cricket" and "Spark." Drinking, drabbing, dicing and duelling filled...
...manuscript in Boswell's handwriting was accidentally bumped into a few years ago. At first sight of the papers, Colonel Isham, the discoverer, who happened to be just finishing the private printing of a nineteen-volume edition of the Tour from far inferior sources, could not decide whether to whoop with joy or shrick in dismay. Unperplexed by any such dilemma. Viking Press is whooping with...