Citations:lollapalooza

English citations of lollapalooza, lollypaloozer, and lallapalootza

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• 1896, George Ade, Artie: A Story of the Streets and Town, Chicago: H.S. Stone, →OCLC, page 8:

  "But the girls — wow !" / "Beauties, eh?" / "Lollypaloozers!"

• 1904, Hugh McHugh, I'm from Missouri (They had to Show Me), New York: G.W. Dillingham, →OCLC, page 89:

  Saturday night we had our final parade with the fireworks finish, and it was a lallapalootza!

• 1931, American Federationist, volume 38, →ISSN, page 182:

  "Can't prove it by me," replied Buck's pal, "you're better educated; but I'll vote it looks like a lollypaloozer of a camp, right now. Let's strap our hammocks to the branches of that big tree up there, after we eat."

• 1941, John Weld, The Pardners, a Novel of the California Gold Rush, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 314:

  "Wal, I'll be a low-down, louse-ridden lollypaloozer!" ¶ "Now ain't that a hell of a note?" Link said.

• 1948, George Taubeneck, The Marshal's Baton: The Specialty Sales Manager, Detroit: Conjure House, →OCLC, page 98:

  When the show-down came, the other players informed him he had lost. One man had turned up a 2-4-6-8-9 of varied suits. ¶ "That," they all exclaimed, "is a Lollapalooza. It beats anything—even a Royal Flush."

• 1966 February 1, The Critic, volume 24, number 4, →ISSN, page 4:

  What bothers me is this — which is better, a lolabaloo or a lollapalooza?

• 1991 December 1, Jim Greer, “Artist of the year”, in SPIN, page 44:

  Witness the surprise success this summer of the Lollapalooza tour, spearheaded by Jane's Addiction, and masterminded by Perry Farrell, SPIN's 1991 Artist of the Year.

• 1998 February 22, Douglas McGrath, “Bottom of the Barrel (Book Review of Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents by Nathan Miller)”, in New York Times‎^[1], retrieved 23 July 2011:

  Promising to destroy the Soviet Union would have been a lollapalooza even for Reagan, since part of his election strategy was to fight his image as a warmonger.

• 2006, Jim Derogatis, Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips, New York: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 112:

  ...the Flaming Lips hit the stage at the World Music Theater south of Chicago for Lollapalooza 1994.

• 2006, Michael Mauboussin, More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

  These tendencies are singularly powerful. But when they are invoked in combinations, they are even more potent and create what Charlie Munger calls lollapalooza effects (yes, lollapalooza is in the dictionary).