Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something happened: clumsy Alben Barkley dumbed it up by mentioning the magic name of Roosevelt after only the first 14 minutes of the address. With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming. Significantly the galleryites sat in bored silence; some of them even drifted away, knowing they could read about the President's message in the newspapers. When this demonstration gave signs of faltering, the organist whipped the marchers on with Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones...
...battered Panama hat when the crowds in the street recognized him. A crowd of Government workers gathered around the gate of the Washington Naval Yard, where the U. S. S. Potomac, White House yacht, was tied up to the dock awaiting President and party; the crowd gave a stifled cheer; the President's big right hand went up in the air and the big smile flashed in recognition. There was the usual 21-gun salute barked from the shore batteries as the President crossed the dock-level gangplank; there was the usual trilling...
...some time-at any rate they are expected to cost more than the 1940 models. Chrysler Corp., which sold more cars in the last week of June (31,982) than in any week in its history, and Chevrolet, with June sales setting a new record, had much to cheer about. Said Chrysler's tough, dynamic boss, K. T. Keller: "Don't get down in the mouth about business in this country. There is going to be a lot of money spent here-more than any of us realize-and this money will get into circulation. Taxes will...
...with solemn hope they would get a chance to tear up their chairs and set fire to their hats. They were more than willing to give him the benefit of all their doubts; they were eager to hear him demolish the New Deal; they were even more eager to cheer some challenging declaration of faith. But inflexible Mr. Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there awkwardly, a near-great man whose fate has been to cast his mother-of-pearl words before mobs...
sang her swing version of Loch Lomond at the Princeton Class of 1930 > reunion, beery old grads gave her one locomotive (Princeton cheer...