Word: whoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Harold L. Ickes, Solid Fuels Administrator, was taken over the coals in the periodical whoop-de-do of Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners club, which costumed him appropriately (see cut), hazed him in song and story, made him a member...
...from World War I a captain, from the Battle of Loos with the Military Cross. Says Hay: "I think I was given the M.C. for being the only survivor." His First Hundred Thousand became so popular in the U.S. in 1915 that Author Hay was later sent over to whoop it up for the Empire. ("I always get on with Americans," says Hay. "I love them...
...inspired by the genius and unerring tactical wisdom of Major General Claire Lee Chennault. On the ground it is a strange compound of unselfish human labor: patient Chinese who work miracles by numbers and sweat where machines are inadequate or just not available; windburned Americans in dusty coveralls who whoop and holler as they work, spend their off hours talking about home...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, having found the Duchess' 70-year-old "Aunt Bessie" Merryman nicely recovering in a Boston hospital from a broken hip, moved on to Newport for genteel whoop-de-do. Boston newspapers had counted the couple's luggage, duly reported 31 pieces. For that, the Duchess gave interviewers a lecture, called it all "most extraordinary," pointed out that the 31 pieces were not just for herself and husband but also a maid, a valet and a secretary. Wrote Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham: "Possibly I'm stupid but it seems to me that this makes...
...thrown the House into an uproar. Congressmen feared it as a bold proposal. Now it seemed to be a very mild little document, less specific even than the Republican foreign policy adopted at Mackinac (TIME, Sept. 20). This week it was set to slide through the House with a whoop...