Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd in the lobby set up a cheer when he came down. With the Secretary he rode the few blocks to the White House, past the stand where he might have taken the oath that President Roosevelt would soon be taking. In his oval study the President was putting the final touches on his inaugural address: "I won't be long," said Wendell Willkie. "I know what it is to be interrupted while laboring on a speech." The President and the man he defeated shook hands, and with a laugh Mr. Roosevelt said that he wished Wendell were going...
...crowd had gone to see a prize fight. More than that, they had gone to cheer a gallant little Negro: spindle-shanked, kinky-haired Henry Armstrong. Two years ago, at 25, Henry Armstrong held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), a feat unmatched by any other fisticuffer, white or black. He renounced his featherweight title, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. Then, last October, after defending his welterweight championship 19 times, the little tornado, whose gameness and stamina made him one of the most extraordinary fighters of all time, lost the last of his crowns to Fritzie...
...without a trace of snobbery. The strongest curse the authors place on the magazine they abhor is that it should be read only by the cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders." And when the parvenu bridegroom leaves them...
...Harvard man." But bolstered by rumors that Government or Army officials have called it a "crime" to make buck privates of college-trained men, many undergraduates hope than once drafted, a degree or I.Q. test will single them out to be trained for technical or "white collar" jobs. Cheer has also been derived from occasional stories of college draftees who were promptly sent away to study meteorology or Intelligence Corps routine at Uncle Sam's expense. The picture is not quite that rosy. Men who obtain training useful to the army before they are drafted stand an excellent chance...
With the grim reality of World War overshadowing all, there was no time during the vacation for Christmas cheer among the forces of William Allen White, Verne Marshall, the columnists and the politicians; they were too busy clarifying their positions and branding each other as small minorities seeking to mislead the people. The two weeks of the vacation witnessed a heightening tempo of war fever and of bitter debate, reaching a mighty crescendo in President Roosevelt's defiant message to Congress yesterday...