Word: hurray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant to keep college football, amateur or semi-pro as it may be, a strictly collegiate thing. If it doesn't stay that way, our blessed Chambers of Commerce will take over and we'll finally be able to call it professional. But until then we want to yell "Hurray Hahvud" or "Yay Yayul" blissfully unaware of the fact that the ivy-clad tradition is boosting the business index. Football should still be of, for, and by the colleges...
Less adaptable than other Greeks last week was a parrot in an Athenian cafe, trained to talk in happier times and not one to forget old tricks quickly. Over and over, to everybody's horror, he kept screaming with pride, "Hurray for Venizelos! Death to his enemies!" Once this patter had earned him crackers. Last week it got him a slit throat...
...gentlemen in evening dress sat around a narrow, wooden platform beneath the great crystal chandelier of the Biltmore Hotel's grand ballroom in Manhattan one night last week and smiled indulgently as a group of white canvas-clad figures went into a huddle and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, America!" Promptly another huddle formed on the other side of the platform and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, Great Britain!" Then 19 U. S. and ten British fencers were given medals. The British got silver ones. The U. S. team got gold ones and a delicately fashioned bronze representing Hector and Achilles...
...Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...
...Hurray for General Johnson," someone shouted in the ranks...