Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dedication began 20,000 assembled Italian War Veterans spontaneously cheered their beloved little king-one of the few monarchs to visit front line trenches under fire during the War. With a brisk salute, His Majesty acknowledged the cheer, then sat, impassive and noncommittal, while the inaugural oration was pronounced by Minister of Public Works O. Giuriati. Orated he, in reckless, provocative, and typically Fascist style...
...town, reported to the police that while driving past one of the Sheffield buildings with his wife, a soda bottle was hurled out of a window and struck the fender of his machine. His wife, he claims, was on the verge of hysteria when students set up a prolonged cheer as the glassware struck...
...Foreign Minister of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel for instruc- tions. "Yield," was the substance of the Monsignor's reply. On the same day that the flag had been torn down, it was replaced and saluted by 30 Austrian soldiers, while Consul Riccardi & staff gave the famed rising Fascist cheer, "eia-eia-eia-alala!" for Signor Mussolini. Diplomats deemed the swiftness with which satisfaction was demanded and given virtually a record. As night fell over the stones and spires of Innsbruck, the slumbers of gruff Governor Stumpf were interrupted by indignant student-patriots who assembled and shouted: "Down with...
...spite of the remarkable record of these past few weeks in respect to dampness, a few sunny days did emerge from the general deluge to cheer those who were beginning to have visions of forty days ceaseless rain. The natural impulse under those circumstances was to don white flannels, exhume racket and spheroids, and travel as swiftly as possible to Soldiers Field; and exactly this was done by students whose number might without exaggeration be described as a throng...
...step of the car into waiting arms. They danced far into this morning; yet their eyes will be sparkling with bright glee when the maid awakens them and they slip into silk for luncheon at the Princeton clubs. The ladies, not the players, dominate the day. Tiny rose faces, cheering madly, and yet not quite knowing Sweezy from Stevens. Cheer not overloud, mesdames, for one has much dancing yet to do. Tonight along the Street of Strange Sights (Broadway) the Crimson mingles with the Orange and the Black. "I will be a brave show...