Word: cheerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sight of the belle of the south going down the asile to the waiting arm of the G. O. P. Such things may make a pretty gesture of national unity, but practical politicians in the Democratic camp perhaps find it a somewhat superfluous one. All that remains to cheer these boys is Senator Moses celebrated statement that the demands of Massachusetts for seats at the inauguration are far too exhorbitant to come from a Democratic state...
...Spanish Royal Family watched a comic cinema, last week, in the Palado Real at Madrid, a few hours before Death came. Their good humor was increased by the prospective arrival, on the morrow, of King Christian and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark. There would be fetes, galas and good cheer-for Danes are the wittiest and most light-hearted of Scandinavians. The eyes of the Spanish Infantas would sparkle as they trotted to jazz strains in the arms of blond courtiers from Copenhagen. And as the counterpoise, the pivot of all this gayety, there would be the Queen Mother. She seemed...
...Meanwhile a white-faced, scant-clad crowd had gathered?men who had had no steady work for .three years .past, men who eat meat never more than once a week, but Britishers, for they gave the well-fed young man in two overcoats a thin tut loyal cheer. Cried a quavering old man: "Ay, ay, the dear lad's a champion!"?perhaps referring to the fact that the Prince's radio appeal at Christmastide brought in some $2,000,000 for mine-relief...
...barracks. If you do not, you will be bombed tomorrow." Presently Lieutenant-Colonel Annibal Molto, commanding the rebels, drew his pistol, turned it upon himself, died like a gentleman and a Spaniard. His soldiers quietly awaited the arrival of an army corps from Madrid, then whooped up a hearty cheer for Dictator and King...
...greet this prank is as good as given, written up, and wirelessed already. Such a laugh as it will be! Yesterday we saw some gulls, but we just laughed it off. 'All in the day's work,' the Captain said, and he was given a rousing cheer with nine skyrockets on the end for his plucky statement. The men would do anything for the Captain, and the Captain would do anything for the men, and the men would do anything for the men, and the Captain would do anything for the Captain. There, that about cleans that...