Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to cheer us up Saturday afternoon we were invited by Mrs. Mackintosh the Captain's wife, to a tea dance given for the Red Cross. We came feeling subdued, stayed to have a very gay afternoon, and left convinced the world wasn't really such an awful place. Even if the men who made up the examinations weren't bubbling over with the milk of human kindness there are others who care! Take our Instructor, for instance. We're sure he cares. We all felt very sad at saying goodbye to him last week, even though...
Oscar Hammerstein deserves a rose crossed with a scallion for his superb lyrics and clumsy adaptation. The Theater Guild deserves a loud cheer for beating the Shuberts at their own forte...
...sophomore at Colgate, "Fuzzy" Fosdick wrote home to his parents in Buffalo (his father was a high-school principal): "I am throwing over my old idea of the universe. I am building another-and leaving God out." But God did not stay out. When Fuzzy graduated (as class poet, cheer leader, winner of five major prizes), he went to Manhattan's liberal Union Theological Seminary, then to a Baptist pastorate in Montclair...
...Pretty Susan Tate used to live in Washington, D.C. Now she is attached to the Moresby Hospital in New Guinea, is used to being proposed to three times a week. Her job is less adventuresome than Montgomery's-to cheer the wounded, write letters home, fulfill odd requests. One request: to cable $65.50 worth of unbroken I love you I love you I love you's to a soldier's girl back in the States...
...started from various towns, 200 to 300 miles away. This year he started from Rosario, 205 miles above the capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro...