Word: pepfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This weekend, the Big Red faces what will undoubtedly be one of their stiffest encounters, in spite of last weekend's Harvard-Brown upset. Under similar circumstances in the past, pep rallies have been held with considerable success. There remains ample time to round up a sound truck, a few flares, the cheering squad, and the team itself. With relatively little effort, it should be possible to give the team a rousing send-off the evening of their departure...
...Kingdom find themselves at war, so her Minister of War and Marine Hassan Sabry Pasha was in London, busily consulting with the British War Office. Meanwhile, Egypt's defenses along the frontier of Italian Libya were inspected by popular young King Farouk I on a flying visit to pep up Egyptian troops...
...Capehart recently returned from a transcontinental tour, with banquets and floor shows in 21 cities to pep up his dealers about Wurlitzer's nickel-in-the-slot music machines. Of his expensive clambake he said: "I can't afford it, but we can't beat those Democrats with firecrackers. . . . The New Deal : . . will fall of its own weight, but we must get in and pitch today and kill it before it kills...
...Charlie Chaplin walk, laughter after a good shot, clenched fists after a bad one. Because he often moves his lips when in a tight spot, a sportswriter asked him if he prayed as he played. "Heck no," he answered. "When I find myself letting down, I give myself a pep talk. I say 'come on now, for cripe's sake, snap out of it. Quit playing like a dope...
...Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father on the platform that Baton Rouge townsfolk, who flocked to his pep meetings, enjoyed pretending that the late, egregious Senator was back again...