Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheer. In Germany, natives were startled by the fiendish whistles made by empty beer bottles tossed overboard by celebrating R. A. F. bomber crews returning home...
...Italian people should be made to feel the sorry plight into which they have been dragged by Dictator Mussolini, and if the cannonade of Genoa, rolling along the coast, reverberating in the mountains, has reached the ears of our French comrades in their grief and misery, it may cheer them with the feeling that friends, active friends, are near and that Britannia rules the waves...
...when the shrill horn of plenty was heard in the rest of the land, did little to cheer the literary consciousness of the South. In those years Carson Mc-Cullers grew up in Columbus, Ga. with a hopeless passion for good music, fine writing, kindly human relationships. Her family was not well off, her opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter...
Since C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers still hope to force Henry Ford to recognize them as a bargaining agency for Fordmen, U. A. W. yelled bloody murder when Ford got a $122,000,000 order for making Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, gave a Bronx cheer to unofficial Army explanations that Ford was best qualified to make the engines and that the engines were needed. The Defense Commission's ClOman Sidney Hillman put in his protest when Ford got another order: $2,000,000 worth of midget combat trucks to replace the Army's motorcycles...
...Matthews, concluded that the rumors had been nothing more than that. Said he: "Foreign newspapermen in Rome ... are always in touch with the other large Italian cities and could not fail to learn about anything of this sort if it happened. The stories were really false." Italians got what cheer they could from the news that eight of Italy's dozen Cabinet Ministers, including gaudy Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, had donned officers' uniforms and joined the nation's desperate fighting forces. But the catch in this bit of cheer was that Old War Horse Benito...