Word: peps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers who have smiled to see Mencken jeer, these five prosperous years in the green Mercurial jacket, at go-getter, hundred-percenter, live-wire, inspirational, egotistic pep stuff, were shocked to see him strut himself in such an inept business-getting manner. Their conclusion was that he has joined his own "hated Philisterei...
...statement last week. His stated reason: "Courtesy to the Democrats." Dr. Work was much occupied with finishing off his duties as Secretary of the Interior, preparatory to resigning. Dr. Work did, nevertheless, make some statements. He said: "We need only about two months. . . . Our campaign will be a real pep rally!" He said: "I never heard of a President of the United States making campaign speeches." He said the total cost of Hooverizing the U. S. electorate would be kept below the sums spent in other years by the G. O. P.-$5,300,000 for Harding-Coolidge...
Edgar Albert Guest, perhaps the only U. S. poet whose verses have earned him fortune, gave a talk to 800 Royal Oak (Mich.) high-school students. The occasion was advertised as a "pep" meeting, to encourage the school debating team in its efforts to win the state championship. Poet Guest smiled at the students and spoke to them for more than 35 minutes...
...that even when the orchestra was performing, they were "working up" the show. "Sometimes" we think a band number will be a knockout, it proves not to be: we shift things around, and cut parts out, until we finally manage to please the public. What all audiences want is pep: they like the soatimental stuff, but snappy rhythm is always more successful," he concluded...
...pep, he shouts, yells, races and makes a noise; his is sheer animal spirits letting off steam...