Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tell him he'll cheer and hiss...
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...beachhead reporter had been responsible for the confusions over Anzio. Correspondents had conscientiously written what they had seen and what they had been told of the battle. They reminded the General: 1) that a BBC broadcast, day after the Jan. 22 landings, had been responsible for too much cheer by reporting that "Alexander's brave troops are pushing towards Rome . . . should reach it within 48 hours"; 2) that the subsequent gloom, when the German counterattack was conscientiously reported, had not been helped by official statements at home. Up spoke the Chicago Daily News'?, belligerent William Stoneman: "The biggest...
...graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The New Dealish Sun gave a well-modulated cheer: "[Courtney] has an opportunity to spearhead a fighting campaign to rescue Illinois from ... the G.O.P.'s worst tory-isolationists...
Beer and Sunshine. Private Henry Holloway, Negro, late of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, said he had been honorably discharged for an injury suffered while transporting boxes. "Henry offered his life to his country," boomed the professionally cheerful voice of Bandmaster Horace Heidt, "what will the country offer Henry?" While awaiting the answer, someone babbled "There's family cheer in Hires Root Beer" and the band played You Are My Sunshine. There was just one thing wrong with Henry's story: he had gotten his injury by tumbling off a boxcar while watching a crap game...