Word: cheerers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl Friend." Columnist Ernie Pyle discovered the Stevensons a few weeks ago, when he marveled at 25 Red Cross clubs-with lodgings, game rooms, snack bars, movies-which Bill had managed to set up in North Africa. And he wrote of Bumpy: "She is a sort of roving delegate, cheerer-upper, smoother-over and finder-outer for the whole Red Cross of Africa and half the Army...
...there must be even more than this submergence of personality in the common effort. Timing must be improved; many yells last Saturday were about as well-timed as a Chamberlain diplomatic move. Respect must be had for the sensibilities of a Harvard cheerer. It must be realized that he is most likely to become suddenly absorbed in the H.A.A. News if called upon to compete with the Army band. Once he was coerced into a cheer while his own band was playing. This was too much. Result was complete frustration for both leaders...
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