Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arizona, who later told the press: "Speaking for myself, I am certain that no one can defeat President Coolidge ... if he should decide to run." Frank W. Stearns, who knows the Boston department store business, who is perhaps Mr. Coolidge's closest friend, came to visit indefinitely, to cheer the President, to fish. ¶ Official Secretary Everett Sanders was ill, Confidential Secretary Edward T. Clark was away in Boston. The President found himself at the Executive offices near Paul Smith's Hotel one morning, opening the mail and attending to the affairs of the Republic with...
Lieutenant's Cheer...
...Gentlemen, there she is!" and the commander's hat sailed into the sea. A mighty cheer ... reporters and crews of seven squat salvaging ships imitated with whole coveys of whirling caps cast gayly into the surly ocean...
From 14 countries they came, strong men and suave men, sputtering men and conservative men, dynamic men and diplomatic men, admen all. President Coolidge sent messages of good cheer. In the message that opened the convention, their president, C. K. Woodbridge (U. S.), spoke of "the radio . . . telephone . . . telegraph . . . airplanes . . . automobiles . . . daily papers . . . national magazines. . . ." With all these media of communication the admen were concerned; many of them were the paid publicity agents of the industries named; through these industries the utterances of their convention were distributed to a listening world...
...clear understanding and appreciation. The mass form assumed by the celebration tends constantly to render this appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming less rare. The graduate who brings his family back to parade and cheer is rendering homage to his totem, but the parades and the cheers are not the basic thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice a genuine glimpse of the true value of his loyalty, an idea of the work that is being done, of the changing standards, of the growing...