Oliver says he was “whangdoodled” out of the Panama canal contract. The whangdoodle, it will be rendered, was the historic doorflicker of the mountains of Hepsidam that mourned for its first-born to lion-roar accompaniment.

From— Goodwin's Weekly : A Thinking Paper for Thinking People. (Salt Lake City, Utah), 23 March 1907. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.