Word: whoopings
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That did it. Communists set up a whoop & holler; one Red Deputy wanted to settle affairs with Deixonne in the corridor. Others challenged his facts. The truth is that the now ailing Thorez lived for years in unsanctified amour with frowsy-haired Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch and fathered her three children, but he and Jeannette are understood to have been quietly married...
...plain-clothes men kept their eyes peeled, but by concert time the big hall had filled up quietly to its 2,700 capacity. With the hall's doors closed against sounds of street rumpus, burly, 57-year-old Walter Gieseking strode onstage. The crowd let out an encouraging whoop, clapped for half a minute. A few listeners rose to show their respect...
...avenue we could see a large student in a light blue jacket running heavily toward Littauer. He bounded across the street and ran up to the Young Democrats. "I've just come from the Lampoon," he panted, "and they've got Dever . . . down there . . . he spoke there." With a whoop and a holler the Young Democrats fled toward Mt. Auburn St., Tobin leading the pack...
...front, Volunteer Worker George McMullen said: "Don't worry, we'll have the bodies to go under those hats. Bodies are our job. We know just where to call when we need, let's say 150 bodies for a demonstration at the Hilton or to whoop it up at the Congress Hotel, where Taft is staying...
President Truman is well aware of this. He said in his Jefferson-Jackson Day speech: "The Republicans make a great whoop and holler about the honesty of federal employees, but they are usually the first to show up in a Government office asking for special favors for private interests, and raising Cain if they don't get them. These Republican gentlemen can't have it both ways-they can't be for morality on Tuesday and Thursday, and for special privileges for their clients on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...