Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exams were here again, and Scotch comic Harry Lauder came to cheer up the University. But an ominous warning from the faculty that any "intellectual bootlegging" of lecture notes would be prosecuted, lent a sobering note to the proceedings, as the men of '26 sat down to spend the next two weeks writing in blue books. Widow Nolan's tutoring school did a flourishing business, and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed lecture notes into the College past the watchful eyes of the deans. But the ordeal soon passed, and the Class of '26 could breath easily...
Instead of closing ranks against the common foe-Russia-too many Americans are gleefully riding behind a dismissed insubordinate Army officer and will cheer him to any reckless extreme-just so it will embarrass and harass our present Democratic President...
Would there now be a big drop? Wall Street's chartists conceded that the bull had taken quite a tumble, from the 263.13 peak of the Dow-Jones industrial average to last week's intraday low of 241.89. But they took cheer from the fact that every time the market approached the lows reached in March, new buyers rushed in and pushed it up. Since the market had "tested" the old lows and held, the chartists thought that it could go up again...
...Boston's Symphony Hall last week, 2,500 listeners heard the Boston Pops Orchestra accompany a tenor in those lines of Evening Prayer, then stood to cheer. The composer, whom they were applauding, could not stand to acknowledge the cheers; Robert Grant Jr., 27, is partially paralyzed with multiple sclerosis. But he bobbed his head happily from his wheelchair near the stage. "This is the greatest night of my life," he said...
Renfer stresses the Army's character-building program, but warns his chaplains-to-be that character-building isn't enough by itself; it has to be accompanied by spiritual aid. He soberly advises against trying to cheer up the wounded with jokes. "I don't do that," he says. "I always say to myself: 'I may never see that boy again. This may be my last chance to give him spiritual conviction and comfort...