Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock today there will be a competition held at the first entrance to the Locker Building to determine the cheer leaders for the coming season. Prior to last year major sports captains led the cheering sections, but this plan proved unsatisfactory and last year the Student Council put cheer leading upon a competitive basis. Ten or 12 men will be selected this afternoon, and will be tried out in the Geneva game tomorrow. From this number five men will win regular positions and two will be picked as alternates...
...Those sad young men" wander about a strange Boston, a strange Harvard. And to make some gesture of despair they cheer from the opponent's side at every football game. Harvard is to them a stack privilege and the survival of the fittest, plus a meal once in a dog's age at a table bigger than a grave marker...
Many a, Mexican, standing before the National Palace, pot-valiant and patriotic, throated a lusty cheer. The bell, originally rung in 1810 by the priest Miguel Hidalgo at Dolores to summon Indians to the subsequently successful revolt against Spain, teetered without squeaking upon its ponderous and newly oiled axis, clanged sonorously...
Sensible words. As Herr Stresemann strode into the Assembly at the head of the German delegation a cheer went up from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Senator Claude Swanson, and many another who sweltered in the gallery. Replying to the formal greeting of President Nintchitch, Herr Stresemann mounted the Tribune, mopped his pinkly bald head, planted his legs firmly, joined his hands somewhat nervously behind his back, launched into a sound and sensible discourse in German...
...knew not that Arthur J. ("Emperor") Cook, famed "red hot" Communist Secretary of the Coal Miners Federation, was riding a few cars behind, in a third class carriage. As the train drew in to Liverpool Street Station, Mr. Cook, facetious, bowed elaborately from his third class window as a cheer echoed for Edward of Wales. Queried "Emperor" Cook of scandalized newsgatherers: "Is this respect for the Prince or for the 'Emperor...