Word: yahoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK DAILY-NEWS: Morse has long hounded, harassed and blackguarded Mrs. Luce from his libel-suit-proof position in the U.S. Senate. We hope the Senator is satisfied. It will be interesting to learn, though, whether Morse's Oregon constituents enjoy seeing a yahoo bully a lady...
...Babbitt, Main Street and other novels, Sinclair Lewis broke through the lace curtain of gentility and poured satiric wrath on the American Yahoo-but later he failed to realize that the fight he had fought was over and won. In his articles he kept shadow-boxing at opponents he had knocked out years before, and perhaps it was this tedious concentration on the bogies of his youth that made his later books seem like watery rewrites of his best work...
...Codger. When the Sanitary Commission visited Lincoln, Strong found him "a barbarian, Scythian, yahoo, or gorilla in respect of outside polish," but also a man of "evident integrity and simplicity of purpose." From this visit Strong brought back a fine Lincoln story. Strong had asked Lincoln to pardon an imprisoned man. The papers for a pardon, replied Lincoln, "must be referred to the Attorney-General, but I guess it will be all right, for me and the Attorney-General's very chicken-hearted...