Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside in the Yard between Holworthy and Grays Halls, between Harvard, Massachusetts and University Halls a great throng of two thousand young Harvard men had come together with spontaneous enthusiasm to see, to cheer, to hear the man about whom they had read so much, but seldom or never seen, the man whom they felt rather than Few realized until after it was all over and twilight had descended about the trees and old bricks of Harvard Yard that they had been present at the most notable assemblage ever gathered at the University, that it was to greet...
...doubtful concerning national standards of 1926 when one knows that in 1827 people were writing such things us-- "a glance at our country and its present moral condition fills the mind with alarming apprehension." The jazz age has nothing on the age of crinolines and Jenny Lind. It will cheer the public to be apprised of its ancestors' wickedness, for the immobile faces in the family album become more human when their foibles are proclaimed...
...laurel wreath and a bouquet of roses were placed by a Fascist usher on the desk of Signor Mussolini as the Italian Chamber assembled last week in extraordinary session. The galleries and boxes twittered and sparkled with the elect of Rome, Fascist patricians who had come to cheer Il Duce as he put through the Chamber his Defense Decrees (TIME, Nov. 15) punishing with death attempts upon his life, and virtually abrogating civil liberty in Italy...
...When cheer leader E. C. Haggerty '27 mounted the platform to open the rally, 1000 students thronged the room. Mike Denihan was the first speaker, waving his famous pennant, and was followed by L. F. Daley '27, President of the Student Council, Coach Horween, C. D. Coady '27, captain of the team, and Coaches Brader and Carney...
...rise and give my cheer. Grace Hall...