Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most refreshing part of "Boyd's Shop" is the air of clean good cheer about it all. The comedy is graceful, not uproarious. The informality of the production was typified by Hiram Sherman, who entertained the audience between acts to prevent impatience over the scene changes, As No. 1 on th list of six Copley productions, "Boyd's Shop" may well be the best. But even though it proves a financial success, it will only stay for two weeks, to make way for Bert Lytell and Mady Christians in "Return Engagement." Boston has at last become a producing center. From...
When President Roosevelt recently announced the destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain, the strongest criticism Wendell Willkie could offer was that the end achieved was good, but the means bad. That sounds weak from a candidate. It isn't the sort of thing crowds cheer. It is unfortunate that Mr. Willkie couldn't make more of it, for he has a real issue in the President's handling of the deal...
...talked dry economics to Nebraska farmers who were waiting for a chance to cheer about something. From eleven Nebraska cities and towns Henry Wallace drew a total of 15,000. In Minnesota his biggest crowd was 1,300, smallest...
...ground like gophers popped the people after the raids, to cheer their batteries and count fires. High roofs were in demand, and in one building a porter conducted five-minute tours to the roof. Delayed-action bombs killed some of the curious. Down Piccadilly one afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
...prepared; and in London, the British Government had released the story. The reporters worked their way out of the room, filed back to their own car. The train chugged through the West Virginia mountains. One stop was made to take on ice and water. A crowd began to cheer, waved placards which read: "We want a Blue Stone Dam." The drawn shade of a window shot up, revealing Franklin Roosevelt, massive-grey-headed, smiling. The train moved...