Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here, other customs are revived. The plebe sounds off the days to the next game as well as those to June and Graduation. The Corps listens to doleful forecasts from officers and is told that it must back up the team. Then it goes to the game and cheers its throat into paralysis, just as it would have done without the patriotic speeches, and "Yuh-gotta-do its" of the cheer-leaders...
...student is silent at a football game for two reasons; first, because he does not know the cheers, and secondly, because he is afraid to cheer when nobody around him is cheering...
...Turner received the rousing cheer to which he was entitled as retiring Chairman of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress. Hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett was then elected Chairman...
...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...
...holy quiet of the Kashikodo-koro, (where only the ancestors, the Emperor, and a few of the Imperial House may enter) into the sudden blazing sunshine of the city, Tokyo. A joyous roar of Banzai greeted them, for 60,000 persons had stood impatient in the heat, waiting to cheer...