Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week backed into geranium-decked Union Station at Savannah, Ga. Out piled delegates from 34 member nations of the Bretton Woods Fund and Bank. The town, still smarting from Lady Astor's recent wisecrack (see PEOPLE) had washed its face for the occasion, turned out en masse to cheer the delegates...
...addressed the man's wife: "Where did your husband get wounded?" "The Philippines," answered the woman. "Ah so," said the Emperor. "In the Philippines. Ah so. You have children. I'm sorry. This place is rather cold. But it will become warmer. I hope you will cheer up." The woman bawled. Embarrassed, Hirohito darted...
...driving snowstorm this week several hundred blue-clad, brass-buttoned students gathered in the ruins of Meiji University to hold an anti-Communist rally. They had been summoned by the "League of Former Cheer Leaders of the Six Major Universities in Tokyo." Two bored, white-helmeted American MPs watched the proceedings for a minute and sniffed: "Them Commies is at it again...
...Candidate Juan Domingo Perón might be planning a Putsch. The reasons: 1) bickering in his own camp (a fortnight before election his backers still could not agree on minor candidates); 2) the well-mobilized organization that turned out 150,000 enthusiasts in Buenos Aires last week to cheer the Democratic Union's Candidate Jose P. Tamborini...
When Ernie Bevin told off Andrei Vishinsky at UNO last week, and sat down, almost the whole London press stood up to cheer. The lone exception was the Communist Daily Worker...