Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the last cheer has died, and the shadows of approaching evening cast lengthened palls upon the greensward of the Palmer Stadium, the presses of the great metropolitan dailies will already be pounding out, over and over again, the name of the Hero. Unnoticed in the crowd that rushes for the railroad station, unnoticeable, except that perhaps his felt hat is a little twisted by fingers that itched for the rough surface of a ball, will return the scrub. He has made no sensational tackle beneath the very gallows shadow of the goalpost, he has run back no punts through...
...practical value of such a trip as the Filipino debating team is taking may thus be seriously questioned. Any good American will cheer wildly for the sacred cause of liberty and vote for giving it to all and sundry who desire it, but an appreciation of the issues involved cannot be gained so casually. No doubt many Filipinos are quite ready for independence and sincerely believe they could make good use of it, but such problems as would be created by the Moro minority and the difficulties of preserving the independence of territory of such economic and strategic value...
...people who look down from the roof of Madison Square Garden at hockey games had given him a nickname-"Red Light" Miller, drawing their title from the signal that flashes when a goal-guard lets in a shot. They had given Miller what is locally known as the Bronx Cheer, a huzzah of sarcastic intention. Rattled, Miller begged to be sent back to the minor leagues "where they wouldn't razz him." Now he was called to take the most important position on a team tied with the favorites for the hockey championship of the world...
Twelve thousand people sat around the rink as the players skated out for the deciding game. Big French-Canadians from the east side of Montreal (the French side) were there to cheer the Rangers, disliking the Maroons for beating the Canadians. And in a furious game in which, when the referee disallowed a Montreal goal, the crowd threw overcoats, hats, papers, garbage, and bottles on the ice-in which Miller whirled his arms and legs like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank...
...University is counting on the pleasure and honor of entertaining the West Point war lords next fall when they arrive en masse from their Hudson stronghold to cheer on their gridiron team against Harvard in the Stadium October 20 it must first of all throw its gauntlet into the arena in opposition to such a rival as Governor Fuller. For it seems that both Massachusetts in general and Boston in particular have social designs on the Army cadets when they invade the East to display their vocal enthusiasm in the Harvard stands...