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Word: woop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Woop Machine Rolls in Bow Polls | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

...torch-carriers, a Crimson bedecked Great Dane, and a vintage 1920 Buick, owned by Bill Currier '50, of Wigglesworth Hall, the procession wound through the Yard, across Massachusetts Avenue and down Holyoke Street. At the Bow Street triangle, the first casualty of the night, Dutch-tile fancier Clemens P. Woop '00, was seen limping into his sanctuary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explosions, Yard Cops, Great Dane Highlight Noisy Pregame Scramble | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

...nice thing about New England weather," said 'Poonprexy Clemens R. Woop ocC yesterday, "Is that it might rain on Thursday." With a nervous glance at sunny skies overhead, the Dutch Tile entrepreneur told newsmen that his pawky band of funnymen were holding daily prayers for a deluge which might eliminate the 23-2 pasting by the CRIMSON's diamond forces, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy's Woop Seeks Pluvius To Damp Crime's 23-2 Reign | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

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