Word: pepping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decision to take this radical step was not Manager Farley's. He had called a "pep meeting" for Roosevelt leaders. Bruce Kremer and Senator Wheeler, both of Montana, began to urge a change in the rules to help their candidate. Senator Huey Long, Louisiana's "Kingfish," delivered a loud yawp for the same thing, swung the meeting completely off its balance. Josephus Daniels of North Carolina and Senator Hull of Tennessee chimed in. Manager Farley lost control of the meeting and the Roosevelt movement passed momentarily into the little hands of little men from the South and West. The meeting...
...horses have been sired at Baroness Wentworth's stud in England, including Raseyn, a 7-year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...
Greatly beloved, the gentle though shrewd doctor (D. Eng.) has put both Western pep and Western humanitarianism into the Mitsui Empire. The House of Mitsui, richest in Japan, have paid him as director of their interests $291,000 yearly, largest Japanese salary. When the House of Rockefeller wanted to give Tokyo a present of $1,600,000 they put the money into Dr. Dan's able hands, knew it would be wisely given...
...word "indifference" has become symbolic of Harvard, in fact, so much so, that Harvard men have come to pride themselves on their indifference. This indifference is the outgrowth of several things,--tradition, Eastern conservatism, and the ever increasing pressure of modern life. Freshmen come to Harvard full of pep, and ready for anything and everything, but within a few months the enthusiasm of these same Freshmen has been replaced by the arched eyebrow, and the indifferent look...
When Coach Rockne died he was on an airplane trip for Studebaker which had just engaged him at $25,000 a year to pep up salesmen. Rumor widely had it last week that Mrs. Rockne will receive a year's salary at the same rate for use of the name; also, perhaps, a stock interest...