Word: rah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of its students go to classes by subway, and one of its off-campus centers of undergraduate life is an Automat. If you want rah-rah, Manhattan's City College (the full, unrelieved title is The City College of the College of the City of New York*) is no place...
...lobby of the Chelsea Hotel Reutherites and Thomasites came to blows. In the Ambassador Hotel, half a dozen mixed-up Reutherites fell upon one another, upsetting a mammoth potted palm. Three delegates from South Bend bounded from bar to bar, doing a buck & wing and chanting "Reuther, -Reuther, rah, rah, rah!" Boardwalk concessionaires, who had never seen anything quite like it, consoled themselves by clipping delegates 75^ for a bottle of beer...
Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey, Debo rah Kerr, Anton Walbrook ; TIME, April...
Fatal Firing. With a handful of mediocre ballplayers, one or two stalwarts and ex-Boy Wonder Bucky Harris as manager, he tub-thumped his team until he got the nickname "Rah Rah" Cox. For no apparent reason, the Phillies won some games ; until the end of May they were in the first division and the gate boomed...
...Then peek in the Stadium itself. Hundreds of stout Radclifflians, wearing yellow yellow badges labeled "Official," are milling about on what used to be the scene of historic gridiron duels. But now the turf is being torn up in long, deep-brown furrows. And the old familiar chant of "Rah-rah-rah" that formerly echoed through the Stadium of a weekend afternoon has given place to "gee-haw, gee-haw," as the girls crack whips over the back of straining horses...