Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshal's rescuers sped to succor him, he, adroit, parleyed with the Nationalist mob. The soldiers came. Pilsudski saw and conquered. While the Nationalists fled, the soldiers stayed to cheer, to work themselves into a frenzy in which they demanded that Pilsudski lead them to Warsaw, overturn the Cabinet, free Poland of scalawags...
Short Speech. Airplanes whirred, guns vomited, church bells swayed, and thousands of Romans loosed a mighty cheer as Mussolini's luxurious salon car squealed to a stop in Rome. II Duce, still in high spirits, consented briefly to address the throng. Standing up in his car, he cried: "Fascisti! Now is the time for acting, not talking...
...alleged facts about Childs restaurants, facts which were not denied. Ac cording to the account, the management, which had shrewdly established white as symbolic of the cleanliness of foods served by the 3,500 white-clad waitresses in their 109 white-tiled restaurants, is as shrewdly beginning to insert cheer ful green among the white tiles. "Younger and prettier" serving girls are to be hired and are to wear uniforms trimmed with green. "The girls are just the same as the tile," an officer of the company is alleged to have remarked to the Sun. The gayety of color...
...After this utterance, Editor Mencken presented Harvard University with the Flag of Maryland (he is a native of Baltimore) and the students and professors, rising to their feet, tendered him the Harvard cheer, three times three. Commented the New York Tribune...
...these possibilities so serious that he cabled Ambassador Herrick to report upon the situation. Two days later, however, the French Senate, while it rushed though the new taxes 232 to 12, voted to postpone application of the sugar and oil monopolies. In Wall Street there ensued a modicum of cheer. At Paris, Premier Briand described the Senate's action rather theatrically as "a torpedo directed against my Cabinet." He referred of course, to the possibility that the Radicals and Socialists may open up the same sort of "bitter enders'" fight over the monopolies that they have been staging for months...