Word: hurrah
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Shout the loud hurrah...
Newshawk Robert C. Albright, Washington Post, remembered that this was the last week of the tomato season. Everyone felt better. And now the familiar scene occurred again: in downtown Toledo, Wendell Willkie was welcomed screamingly, like a combination of Lincoln and Clark Gable, by another ecstatic, confetti-and-hurrah audience...
...force on the battle ground that evil can be resisted." The group of undergraduates thus addressed did not respond; it persisted in motionless silence. "The racial doctrine as interpreted in the Nazi creed is sheer, primitive nonsense . . . be proud of the race to which you belong"--Still no hurrah shouts from the audience. The catch-words of 1914 do not catch any more; their halo has faded out in the grisly twilight of reality. British youth knows that war is a messy business; and it refuses to believe the old-school patriots who represent it as a struggle...
...correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Last week glib Dr. Stoddard got an interview with Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Addressing the little doctor as a "master psychologist," Interviewer Stoddard asked how come the Germany of 1940, unlike that of 1914, has no hurrah spirit...
...Lewes, Del., Birdy, a parrot, died. When President Grover Cleveland first took office, Birdy was taught to shout: "Hurrah for Cleveland!" For 54 years Birdy cheered for Cleveland...