Word: hails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Graves was prone to quote such back-pats from admirers as this one: "Silver has its Bryan, the League of Nations its Wilson, the sensible free speech has you. ... All hail to the champion of freedom." To which Columnist Graves generously responded, in print: "All hail to you, too, Mr. Purdy...
...product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye, but his scrambled-eggs number is fine, his smiling pilot still better. Hail, Caesar...
Soon Atlantic Square was packed by more than 10,000 men & women. They sang The Star-Spangled Banner and Hail! Hail! the Gang's All Here. They shouted and chanted catcalls, cheered the labor leaders who spoke from the Town Hall's steps. They kept it up for two hours, while most business in Stamford stood still...
...Hail Darwin! Hail Franklin! The second get-together was in the red-and-gold Bolshoi Theater. On the stage, where the academicians sat, a white, heroic-sized bust of Lenin stood on a pedestal underneath a mammoth poster portrait of Stalin. President Komarov's welcoming address (read for him because he was ailing) proposed greetings to Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, the Red Army, the Red Navy. The conferees enthusiastically sent them...
...three Axis leaders scurry in terror before a thick hail of junked scrap-metal -wrenches, chainlinks, pots & pans, hammerheads, nuts & bolts, ashcans, an ancient boiler, a potbellied stove, a chamber...