Word: woos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuffed monkey set up in front of the drums with electric lights for eyes and a baton that waved automatically. Popular tunes when the Dixieland first went North were Pretty Baby, They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting to the Dixieland's own tunes, which have since become jazz classics: Tiger Rag by La Rocca, Clarinet Marmalade by Shields and Ragas, Sensation Rag by Edwards, At the Jazz Band Ball by La Rocca and Shields...
...Hara, the tall, energetic Bishop of all the Catholics of Georgia, distinguished himself by storming violently at the Savannah Press. Reason: The newspaper ran a whimsical St. Patrick's Day editorial repeating the old fable crediting the Irish Saint with having granted women the privilege to woo during Leap Year...
...Wooing Problem, Finished with an "election" in which the loss of even one per cent of the vote was surprising. Adolf Hitler last week turned back to the difficult international front where the Locarno Powers were waiting for him to make amends for his remilitarization of the Rhineland. In the glass and steel elegance of the Reichskanzler Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse, the Realmleader summoned his foreign policy favorites: Special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin Neurath, Nazi Foreign Affairs Expert Alfred Rosenberg. Germany's problem: to woo Great Britain away from France and split the Locarno Powers...
...indirectly" to transact normal business. Maximum fine for each violation: $200,000. SEChairman James McCauley Landis has made registration easy, insisting that filing will not impair the powermen's right to challenge the Act's constitutionality at a later date. Last week in a final effort to woo the industry under the wire Chairman Landis offered to accept "conditional" registration which would be null & void should the courts eventually find that the powermen had really surrendered their constitutional rights by filing. Pointedly hinting at the serious liabilities involved if the Act were upheld, SEC wheedled: "No possible ground...
...Stern-Hearst feud developed several months ago when Publisher Hearst tried to woo away some of Stern's best men. Politics rather than personalities were at the bottom of their grudge fight. Out in the open last week it took on new proportions. Besides reprinting the Hearst attack on the New Deal, New Dealer Stern editorially challenged the master of San Simeon thus on the Record's front page: "Let Hearst, arch reactionary, battle the liberal Record at close range, and let Philadelphia citizens be the jury. . . . Philadelphia is one of the few cities in the country where...