Word: yip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting "Yip...
Samuel Isaac Krieger arrived in the U. S. from Germany some ten years ago, self-billed as a mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment...
...gave last orders for the removal of his personal belongings to his big new private town house at No. 69 Eaton Square, set off for a three-week holiday in the country. A crowd of Londoners standing outside No. 10 cheered Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin loudly, gave a special yip when he declared with a smile and a wave, "I am now a gentleman-at-large...
...clock the sky was dove grey. The crowd grew impatient, began to yip: "Let's go! Bring him out!" At 5:20 a.m. Bethea, his stomach bulging with chicken, pork chops and watermelon, was pushed through the crowd to the base of the platform. "I don't like to die with my shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead...
...Hitler's last two speeches, the first in the Krupp Steel Works at Essen, the second in the exhibition hall at Cologne. Every German had his stage directions. At 3:45 o'clock on the afternoon of the Essen speech radios all over Germany echoed the shrill yip of Minister Goebbels: "RAISE FLAGS!" On that instant from every flagstaff in Germany and from the windows of thousands of little cottages unrolled the swastika banner. Then followed the voice of Dr. Goebbels, solemn as a priest: "Adolf Hitler is Germany...