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...does not laugh in telling it. He was being evicted from his home. As he was pushed out the door, he suddenly beamed at the children who were standing watching the spectacle, and he made a V with his fingers as a victory sign. The children gave him a cheer. Hilda giggles at this story, and tries out the sign with her own hand...
...record was 12-0. They won the Orange Bowl over Nebraska 22-15 New Year's night, and the wire services anointed them champions of all college football. But a National Collegiate Athletic Association probe of Clemson recruiting methods is in progress, so nobody knows whether to cheer just...
...music almost every day and night, as visiting choirs take turns singing for the huge crowds that walk in awed silence through the candlelit state rooms. Musty portraits of Presidents from Christmases past have been garlanded with evergreens: even Chester Arthur with his mutton chops got an injection of cheer...
...week. But Christmas, with its echoing cry for brotherhood, its pleas for peace on earth, is a necessary annual nourishment for the presidency, just as important in some ways as the tax receipts. The stage is magnificently set. Word has it that Ronald Reagan will add to White House cheer by singing a carol or two, and Nancy has told her household that there will be snow. The flakes that Jamie Wyeth created in October have been waiting around...
Spectacles like this undoubtedly led some people to question the purpose of the holiday, and, with the rise of Puritanism, Christmas's very existence was threatened. Regarding the good cheer as "pagan" and "Popish," England's Roundhead Parliament in 1643 abolished the observance of the day. The King protested and mobs attacked those who opened their shops. But Parliament adopted strong measures, and for the next 12 years Christmas as a general English holiday ceased...