Word: huzzas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings since 1931 opened in the Bellas Artes gallery, crowds blocked the streets waiting to get in. Thirty minutes after the doors opened, they were closed again, to save those inside from being trampled in the rush. The critics' reaction to the show was unanimous-a prolonged huzza-hosannah. "Only those bound up in iron prejudices," said the newspaper Excelsior, "could fail to appreciate the work of this genius...
...Television is now ready for the American public." This cheery huzza last week from Jack Poppele, president of the Television Broadcasters Association, was premature-by about six months, at the very least. Television had certainly not yet arrived for the general public. But the industry had good reason for optimism. Washington, finally admitting that the baby was big enough for pants of its own, gave television a preliminary set of rules & regulations...
Three cheers and a huzza for Staff Sergeant Dan Malmuth's letter this week. If a few more of our so-called men had got up on their hind legs and said the same thing a long time ago, all this Waacy-business might have ended up where it belongs-on the junk heap...