Word: whooping
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...Women's Christian Temperance Union figured last week that the U.S. is letting the war drive it to drink 17.7% more liquor than last year. Small, sharp beagle-eyed President Ida B. Wise Smith and the W.C.T.U. are back on the warpath again with a whoop and a hatchet...
...that jewelry makers are denied all use of tin, copper, aluminum, chrome, nickel and iridium, these pieces of raffia, felt, wood, clay and glass are the latest thing-and almost the only thing left-in costume ("junk") jewelry. Whoop-dedoo of the spring season are pieces like a pair of red felt lips clutching a pink felt rose...
...Dionne Quintuplets prepared for their third Christmas of the season-the French Canadian whoop-te-do on New Year's. (They celebrated first on Dec. 1 for "Christmas" publicity...
...plushiest employe profit-sharing plan in big corporation history last week was announced by Beech Aircraft Corp. The scheme-which was okayed with a whoop and a holler by Beech's 6,000 employees-gives them one-half of all company profits. Distributions (50% cash, 50% U.S. Defense Savings bonds) will be made every three months on the basis of the preceding quarter's earnings. Beech thereby expects to generate enough worker cooperation and efficiency at least to offset the cost to the stockholders...
Lily Rons, Gertrude Lawrence, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Bert Lytell, Edmund Gwenn, Lenore Lonergan all climbed into brocades to whoop it up for United China Relief at the opening of Manhattan's Burma Road Mart...