Word: yahoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed as pleased as she was with their three children, a tasteful circle of friends as decently well off as themselves. Suddenly, after Alec's and Johnnie Graham's amateur operetta had made a sensation, she found herself a back number entertaining mobs of Alec's "Yahoo" theatrical acquaintances. He began living in a "genial, gregarious, alcoholic mist" and now declared that their old friends had always bored...
...Yazoos and Yapoos seriously expect we Yahoos to believe that cancellation favoring Europe at once and ipso facto means trade favoring America? It is an obvious non sequitur. Witness the attitude of our chiefest creditor. Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian...
...indictment, whose sting still lasts after more than a century: "The spirit that guides them [the Yazoos of 1806]," he said, "considers the many as made only for the few-the spirit that is never so true to itself as when false to the nation." Would that our great Yahoo hero, Andrew Jackson, sat in Washington today to say as he said to a European debtor in 1831: "Pay or else. . . ." Andrew collected. He extinguished the public debt. America prospered. Ross M. BARRETT...