Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside, the spectacle was a near thing to a combined operation of the Shriners, the Mardi Gras and a chorus of the Metropolitan Opera. In fact, the paraders were "We the people" of the most wide-awake land in tropical Africa: the British Gold Coast. They had gathered to cheer their leader on the third anniversary of National Liberation...
...realm of bondage . . . We swear by Thy Holy Name to work to our utmost [for a country] free from wicked passions and compatible with what is right and just . . . Our motto shall always be unity, discipline and work. Almighty God, best of witnesses, be our witness." With a mighty cheer, the crowd thus pledged themselves to three years of Naguib's dictatorship in democracy's name...
...York Times gave both show and artists a hearty cheer, spoke warmly of Pereira's "radical innovations." of MacIver as "a poet whispering of simple and humble realities." Moreover added the Times, "they are still young . . and it is quite possible that their best and most significant work lies ahead of them " Next stop for the show, after two months in Manhattan: museums in Des Moines, San Francisco and Dallas...
Charming Rotter. In a sleazy London bar, Kate Farrant, thirtyish and handsome, waits for her twin brother Anthony, a globe-trotting ne'er-do-well. When he bounces in with "the shallow cheer of an advertisement," she guesses he has lost his job again. To Kate, her charming rotter of a brother is a frightening vision of the failure she might have been, yet she loves him helplessly, as if he were more than a brother. To salvage him, she takes Anthony back with her to Sweden, where she is ensconced as mistress to Erik Krogh, Europe...
Those simple possessions were the outward badge of failure. His schooling had ended in the eighth grade, and a long succession of boring jobs without a future had made him uneasy. Awkward and bashful, he didn't even have a steady girl to cheer him. He loved his Swedish-immigrant parents, but he wanted something more exciting than his father's life as a railroad laborer, ten hours a day, six days and six dollars a week. Eventually he was to find a life very much to his liking, but at the end of this long book...