Word: haile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare journalistic accolade was bestowed on Columnist Hugh Johnson when his running mate, freckle-faced Westbrook Fegler. who has been at columning some eleven years, leaned out of his crow's nest across the World-Telegram's ''folio page" to give the newcomer a friendly hail, pay him a well-deserved compliment...
Turned down by the Dramatic Club last year, Joseph M. V. Shapiro '36 took his play "So Proudly We Hail" to a New York producer. Last Tuesday he saw it open on Broadway...
...author of "So Proudly We Hail" doesn't like military academies and he says so with vigor and bitterness. Out of the raging violence of his indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national...
...Still another guest was High Commissioner Frank Murphy coming to say "Hail" in token of his return from the Philippines, "Farewell" before departing for Philadelphia, in the interval to taste some White House food and while away a couple of hours planning a U. S.-Philippine conference to try to save the Philippines from the economic pains of independence...
Campaign songs excoriating the opposing party are as old as U. S. politics. Of all U. S. Presidents, George Washington alone escaped. After his unanimous election he was hailed by a happy populace singing Yankee Doodle and Welcome, Mighty Chief. Back-biting and banner-waving came in with Adams and Jefferson. The New Englander was a "Monarchist," the Virginian a "maniac who sympathized with the French Revolution." In 1797 Adams voters paraded to Hail Columbia! and Adams and Liberty! Four years later the Jeffersonians were crying...