Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first concert, some 1,000 young men and maidens milled outside in protest. Inside, as the conductor raised his baton for the Verdi Requiem, someone yelled "Down with Van Kempen." Others took it up, added "Sieg Heil" to the chant. Two students began singing the Horst Wessel song, two others tossed bottles of tear gas. Police cleared out the troublemakers and the concert went...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...
First, Radcliffe has the "right" to deal with its students as it sees fit, short of beating them, libeling them, stealing from them, and so on. President Jordan could proclaim that any girl who didn't chant "I shall protect Radcliffe's good, name" for a half-hour every day would be expelled, and he would have a perfect "right" to do so. No contract, no charter, no law forbids such action. Similarly it can threaten Miss Labenow with expulsion for just about any reason it chooses. Or it can insist that its student reporters are reporters only...
...trolleys were temporarily immobilized and a woman ran screaming from a student-rocked car. Aerials were ripped from passing cars and the steering mechanism on a parked automobile. As the police pushed people into the shutting wagons a student chant called out for the six day week...
...fizzle for lack of help from him, he stationed Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. Garry in a basement room fitted with an electrical pipeline to the stadium loudspeakers; on cue, Garry (ever since known as "The Voice from the Sewer") gave out with a clamorous "We want Roosevelt!" chant that was taken up by Kellymen posted about the floor, swelled to a convention-stampeding roar...