Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, although not a single hearty cheer was raised during the 98-minute Budget speech, promptly authorized the Chancellor's income, gasoline and tea taxes...
...ceremonies will begin at 2 o'clock, with the graduates standing to cheer the Class of 1938, which will be seated in a body. Following this the alumni will be seated, and the Seniors, in caps and gowns, will stand and give cheers...
...proletarians about in the stately halls, lecturing as in the palaces at Leningrad and Moscow. Alba is a blood kinsman of Winston Churchill, discharges the duties of an ambassador in London, where both he and onetime King Alfonso XIII are objects of sympathy, occasionally get a friendly English cheer...
Ideas included a new technique developed by German psychologists, for revealing musical talent in one-year-old infants. System: Stimulate subject 1) by striking a clear-toned bell. 2) by uttering a Bronx cheer. If subject goo-goos pleasure at sound of bell and cries at sound of Bronx cheer, musical talent is not necessarily proved, may be reasonably suspected...
...hundred years ago next month a group of top-hatted Manhattanites, led by their mayor, put out from a shaky pier in the North River to cheer the arrival of the British steamer Sirius, which, with 40 passengers, had made the voyage from Ireland in 18 days. Though the U. S. ship Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built...