Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They honored Mal Holmes at Harvard night at the Pops, and the Class tendered ovation after ovation for the Boston Orchestra--but the biggest cheer of the night came when classmate Johnny Green, famous songwriter and currently musical director of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, took over from regular conductor Arthur Fiedler...
...bill of Parliament, even though it should require the abolition of monarchy. Yet what the crown has given up in authority, it has gained in public affection. Said Sir Winston Churchill last week: "A great battle is lost; Parliament turns out the government. A great battle is won; crowds cheer the Queen...
...Rome, Picasso's War and Peace made a big hit with both critics and public, and Italy's Communist press found plenty in the symbol-studded murals to cheer about. Trumpeted Rome's L'Unità: "Facile prophets have declared that Picasso doesn't give a hoot for ideological content. But Picasso has again shamed and belied them." Party-liners are not likely to say the same of Portinari, who seems to be drifting out of the Communist orbit. His murals have "no party intention," he explains. "They are the point of view of mankind...
...minute checks to the 600 dials and indicators in the cockpit and flight engineer's compartment. Then they sent the huge, four-engine plane scooting along the runway and into the air on its first test flight, while 12,000 Douglas employees around the field set up a cheer...
...Cheers in the Streets. His reward for a lifetime of doing his job well came in the Silver Jubilee celebration of 1935, the year before he died. Drawn by four greys with postilions, the King and his Queen drove around the poorer quarters of London, through Battersea, Kennington and Lambeth, Limehouse and Whitechapel. Everywhere, his subjects turned out to applaud and cheer...