Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after the fire alarm had sounded. the port side of the ship was like the inside of a Bessemer converter. Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." A young Catholic priest walked calmly around giving all comers final absolution. Eight of the ship's twelve boats were lowered. There was fighting to get into these. "Everybody was pushing and screaming topside." said Seaman Carl Jackson. "The passengers were fighting to get to the lifeboats, but it was no good. They were...
Straightway the ring of Communists broke into mournful Red songs, boos and shouts. Then they dug into paper bags and sent a hail of ripe tomatoes whistling at Sir Oswald. His voice rising to a near-scream, Fascist Mosley replied: "Behind these hooligans are alien Jewish financiers, supplying them with palm...
When the 79-year-old author of My Boy Franklin lately landed in Britain gallant London editors surpassed themselves in honoring the President's mother. One even went so far as to hail her as WORLD'S MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN...
...weather made front-page news last week. A violent storm in Maine washed away seedlings and demolished fruit trees. A deluge after long rains ruined much cotton around Augusta. Ga. A snowstorm whipped the Idaho highlands. A severe frost struck the district around Lancaster, Ohio. A hail storm near Marathon, Tex. pelted to death 1,000 sheep...
Many thousand Harvard men have grown to love him so that he may be compared only to the ever-present "Copey" in their minds. That ready smile and constant cheerfulness have made him popular with everyone. Yet those men see more in his attitude than that of the hail fellow well met. They recognize the great knowledge of music which has made his arrangements and compositions used by the leading choral organizations the world over. Still more they recognize the sincerity which has gained for him the confidence of so many friends. It was that sincerity that convinced President Lowell...