Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When, during Churchill's illness with pneumonia, his doctor prescribed a novel for light reading, he chose Defoe's gamy Moll Flanders, "about which I had heard excellent accounts, but had not found time to test them." Having finished it, he gave it to the doctor "to cheer him up. The treatment was successful...
Carmichael was late, and most people were sitting when he came in. Sunday's blackout had taught the tables a cheer, and they were shouting "This is Table Number Six! Where is Number Seven?" when Mr. Carmichael appeared in the doorway and smiled. Housemaster Elliott Perkins walked over and shook his hand. Dr. Perkins was wearing a tuxedo left over from high table; Mr. Carmichael was not. The two men blinked at each other. Mr. Carmichael stood up on a chair and toasted the house with a paper cup of beer, then he elbowed his way through House Committee...
...Cheer from Coffins. Conscientious Objector Fry was assigned to a Pioneer Corps outfit cleaning up rubble all over bombed Britain. He converted his tough sergeant to Shakespeare and occasionally awed him, when he gave what Fry considered unreasonable orders, with a geyser of Falstaffian curses. After war's end, his Phoenix ran for 64 performances in London's West End. Wrote one critic: "Mr. Fry could make a ghoul laugh ... He gets more cheerfulness out of coffins than most people would from the abolition of bread rationing...
...rally will feature the usual hand numbers, members of the team, and also a new cheer, the "Skyrocket," which will be accompanied by a now start by the cheerleaders...
...case, Butler stated, the cheer-leaders plan to introduce two new stunts at the Brown game. Butler will lead a "boom" cheer while climbing up a 20 foot ladder on the 50 yard line and then jumping into a fire...