Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sombrero to the strains of Texas Tornado, the act was the standard Hildegarde mixture of sentiment and bounce. Interspersed with her flamboyant piano-playing and her vivacious and nostalgic songs came such blushing lines as "I know I'm not pretty, but I got pep." She kept getting her audiences into the act by handing out roses and kisses to bashful customers (one man decorated with a rose in Olney, Md.: General Omar Bradley...
...afternoon cameramen moved their equipment to Dillon Field House to take scenes of Lloyd Jordan giving the varsity-football team a pep talk is the dressing room. Later, the moviemakers went to Widener to film students studying...
...musicianship, that produces the results Holmes gets from non-professional musicians. He believes very strongly that the best way to get amateur musicians to work together is to make them enjoy it--"by cracking the quip, if necessary." And his humor technique can be modified into a Knute Rockno pep talk when necessary. Two years ago, he read a somehow dispirited group of Bandsmen a Cornell Band press clipping, in which the last line read "The Harvard Band is also expected to appear." As usual, Holmes' team remained undefeated...
...third major category of pep articles deals with class spirit. Beneath the unified front of school spirit there must be a class rivalry which, in its tension, sharpens and intensifies the all-over pep. This rivalry is often set up as a war between freshmen and sophomores, climaxed by a fight, or "rush." The rushes usually break into papers for two reasons: they are either too destructive, or not destructive enough...
Before setting off to make their rounds, over 100 solicitors attended a dinner at Lowell House and heard pep talks designed to increase unity...