Word: yahoo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Follette−"affects the hirsute adornment of a drug-store yahoo and practises the political disingenuousness of a Jim Watson...
...even a national convention of U. S. postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
...sometimes confused in the casual mind and not only because of their names. As penmen they are stylistic cousins of whom the younger and cleverer-Mr. Lewis-has far surpassed in ability and notoriety his more intellectual and radical elder. Yet when Sinclair Lewis was but a redheaded young yahoo learning at Upton Sinclair's colony, Helicon Hall (Englewood, N. J.), the rudiments of a Socialism which he was later to abandon for a creed 100% egocentric, Upton Sinclair was already a celebrity by inversion, a rebel whose voice of loud and monotonous dissent had long been heard...