Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Word. In Portland, Ore., a clause in the will of A. C. Forrester, late sanitary engineer, ran: "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer...
...London. They amiably crowd the same corner pubs, complain about prices at the Savoy and Ritz, jostle each other in Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. In Hyde Park, baseball and softball games are now an evening institution. British civilians gather enthusiastically, but do not understand the game and cheer in the wrong places...
...official of the International Labor Office, take the honors. Reed writes interestingly and with authority of Technocracy, the depression-time craze which has recently emerged with new trappings, both ornamental and ideological. Mr. Riches contributes a survey of the I.L.O. packed with factual information and providing an element of cheer for the future of international cooperation. Both of these essays smack of serious study, and neither of them indulges in roseate or gloomy speculation...
...news that the U.S. is to have a great fleet of carriers, Major Alexander P. de Seversky, whose book Victory Through Air Power has stirred a general one-way controversy (no one disbelieves in air power) did not jump up and cheer. He stood up instead to denounce the carrier fleet as a waste of precious effort, to cry that carriers are doomed. He believes that diversion of unfinished cruisers to carriers right now is a practical move, but that there is no use starting to build any new carriers. By the time they are ready...
Basis for this cheer was Leon Henderson's report that, from May 15 to June 2, living costs in 21 sample cities had actually declined one-tenth of 1%. It was the first time since November 1940 that the rise had been checked even momentarily. How long the ceiling can hold, with purchasing power soaring, with labor and farm prices uncontrolled, is another question...