Word: bellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute long endure, a monument eternal to our sad abortion...
...small. The second section of an extra, misplaced purposely on the outside of what is perhaps only a Cambridge edition, contains a news box headed, "HARVARD MASHER MASHES TOE." Instantly every street corner between the Yard and the river is possessed by jumping dervishes, who not only jump, but bellow. Undergraduates, of course, are hardened to a considerable amount of noise, but if certain Boston papers will refrain during the examination period from adding their generous contributions, their newsies may cry "Wolf! Wolf!" all the rest of the year and find everyone turning out to answer the most ridiculous false...
...hungry students who bellow...
...queer psychology, which the Student Council attributes to Harvard undergraduates. Admitting for the moment that their cheering has been thoroughly unsatisfactory, the Council evidently believes that they can be made to bellow hoarsely and continuously by the trained antics of competitively selected cheer leaders. Instead of men who have won records of achievement on a half-dozen teams leading their classmates in a spontaneous burst of approval, the new plan provides for a quintet of expert dancers directing a trained chorus of "Rah-Rah-Boys". At least such is the ideal toward which the new plan tends...
...Chamber of Deputies, the Premier appeared as a man possessed with the devil. The Government benches resounded with the thumps from his large, white hands. His heavy face was red with fury, his eyes flashed like a thousand daggers in the sunlight, his voice sounded like the bellow of a bull as he turned toward the Fascist Deputies and roared...