Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...falsetto note of cheer was struck by the House Naval Affairs Committee. When reporters sought the committee's authority for saying that electronic detonation of approaching bombs promised to provide an effective defense, the committee turned out to have nothing more solid in mind than a newspaper interview with Crooner Bing Crosby's somewhat scientific brother Larry...
Jolly Cholly, an extrovert who exudes cheer and carries a banner of hilarity, inwardly is one of baseball's greatest worriers, a man who doesn't sleep well when things go bad. He slept fine after the first game. Solid Steve O'Neill, who does his worrying on the ball field and leaves it there, just waddled home to the Detroit-Leland Hotel and settled silently behind cigar smoke to read the horrible headlines. Sample (from the Detroit Free Press): "Tigers Wail...
Every Real Teacher Knows. The biggest cheer of the day, from a gallery of St. John's undergrads, went to President Barr. Said he: "Believe me, sir, this is not a matter of mere sentimentality. Every real teacher knows the tremendous working advantage of surroundings that incite the learner to renewed effort." He called up the ghosts of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase and Thomas Stone. "These men," he cried, "not only signed the Declaration of Independence. They exerted themselves . . . for the people they had helped free by founding . . . St. John's and by choosing its present...
...Emperor's kinsman and Prime Minister, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, spoke to the Diet. His flat face was inscrutable, his soldier's hands rigidly at attention. The legislators listened impassively (a few dozed), applauded and approved with the discipline of marionettes. But there was little to cheer in the Premier's words...
When Ambassador Spruille Braden took his seat at the banquet table, a wild ovation echoed through the building. During his speech the audience cheered, jumped up, waved handkerchiefs. Women cheer leaders pranced on tables. Probably no foreigner in Argentina had ever raised such a racket...