Word: whooping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUNG MEN-Oliver La Farge-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). For years the Indians of the Southwest played a limited part in Western fiction, usually remaining in the story just long enough to let out a war whoop and bite the dust. With the novels of Oliver La Farge, braves and squaws seem at last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They...
...California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression up to $500 on the tenth and each additional store. Since California has only 9,000 chain stores compared to 77,000 individual stores, the State Assembly, with a whoop and a halloa, passed the bill 68-to-8. When the bill reached the State Senate, the great oil lobby swung into line, got filling stations exempted. While Sacramento stewed in summer heat, ice companies won exemption. To Sacramento went a handsome young proprietress of a beauty shop chain: stores...
...knows better than Senator Glass that fireworks are not conducive to the drafting of sound and significant legislation. The House, prodded by Chairman Steagall of the Banking & Currency Committee, passed the Eccles measure with a whoop last May. Apparently jealous Congressman Steagall's prime purpose was to embarrass his old rival Senator Glass with a demonstration of the House's enthusiasm for the bill?whether its members understood it or not. The House made a few concessions to country bankers, self-righteously struck out one of the best features?pensions for Federal Reserve Board members to insure their independence?...
...finding his wife dead when he returns from the Civil War, goes to San Antonio with his daughter Terrill (Martha Sleeper), and two of their retainers. Masquerading as a boy, Terrill meets a cowboy, Pecos Smith (Richard Dix). Pecos helps the Lambeths settle in their new home. The Comanches whoop upon the hills, the rustlers shake their guns and Colonel Lambeth guzzles his mint-juleps. At the end of the picture, the rustlers and Comanches are all dead. Terrill learns from Pecos that her trousers have not fooled...
Most famed young Democrat in attendance was moose-tall James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. As treasurer, he reported the clubs took in $1,846.78 last year, spent $1,642.35 but still had a deficit of $1,947.53. The convention with a whoop elected him secretary. For president they chose Clifford Woodward of Des Moines...