Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year, with the new provision for picking cheer leaders on a competitive basis, a committee chosen by the council will take charge of a competition for the five positions open...
...committee of three undergraduates and one graduate, to be selected by the council, shall start a competition immediately after college opens in the fall, and shall continue until after the first few games. Five men in the competition will be appointed cheer leaders, one of whom shall be head cheer leader, on the approval of the Student Council...
...fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared a symposium on "Liberalism ? the Gospel of the Open Mind" with articles by Governor Smith, William Allen White, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, and many another famed educator or politician...
...actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered up the ship's sides and officers rushed them to their posts. The passengers began to cheer and slap each other's backs. "Hurray for the statue of Liberty...
...sightseers know that tong means "Parlor." The implication of the word is a genial one, implying conversation, compromise, good cheer. Tongs were originally started as protective trade organizations. They became, by degrees, political bodies?compact, powerful, antagonistic. Thus was the word perverted. Now, when that word appears in print, it clangs like a terrible bronze bell summoning unseen hordes to war, sounding the knell of many pathetic, dingy little men who will die by violence, in secret places...