Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Aldermen. All could have been dispatched much earlier. At 10:30 rooters demonstrating outside the Mayor's house were informed that the Mayor, his wife, his daughter Jean and son Eric had already gone to bed. A little later theatre crowds were able to hear and cheer the final unofficial figures: LaGuardia, 1,344,016; Mahoney, 889,591. It was the first time Tammany had ever had to bow to Reform twice running. It was the Fusion candidate's first absolute majority...
...mighty tribute to Armistice Day and the ideals for which it stands. It shows progress and a basic improvement in the philosophy of mankind. It demonstrates that regardless of present war machines, youth is distinctly restless under Mars' long domination. This new type of youth may not shout and cheer and sing anthems on Armistice Day. But rather it murmurs prayerfully and with conviction, "Let it be no more...
After the first such youthful cheer some years ago Pius XI was all smiles and calmly turned to the cheerleader. ''Do it again. That is worth an encore," he commanded...
Coupled with the fact that car production last week was fast returning to normal after the annual slack season which this year was concentrated chiefly in September,* such figures seemed ample reason for extreme good cheer among automobile-makers. Tending their new creations in Manhattan's vast Grand Central Palace (see p. 67), makers almost unanimously anticipated their best year, pooh-poohed Wall Street talk of a major Depression. But, though this week's show in Manhattan marks completion for manufacturers of the crucial business of launching new models, to an equally important segment of the automobile industry...
...Bastille to think about the error of our ways. Every time I hear one of our self-appointed American Legion guardians of Americanism bragging about the organization's efforts in that direction, I ponder on these things, and am impelled to mentally emit a Bronx Cheer...