Word: rahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano, demonstrated the "buoyant beat" of U.S. brass bands. Recalls Putzi: "I had Hitler fairly shouting with enthusiasm. 'That's it, Hanfstaengl, that is what we need for the movement, marvelous,' and he pranced up and down the room like a drum majorette." The "Rah, rah, rah!" refrain of Harvardmen, by Putzi's account, became the thunderous "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" of the Brownshirt demonstrations. Storm Trooper bands blared their goose-step rhythms with a between-halves unison. Such Nazi slogans as Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer were patterned on the effective...
...chance that it could, Nixon toured seven key counties, made eight full-dress speeches, shook as many hands as he could reach (2,000 in 90 minutes in Bergen County), even inspired 3,000 students who turned out of Atlantic City High School to give him a rousing "Three-Rah Nixon...
...action of President Goheen and his trustees against Father Halton. It reminds me of the mama's boys who won't play unless they can make the rules. Because Father Halton acts as if free speech means free speech, he has been ruled out of bounds. Rah! Rah! Tiger! Excuse it please, we mean Tabby...
...ballyhoo begins: the buildup in the back country, the tank artists and local strongmen, the charm where it works and the arm when they ask for it, the planted puffs in the big metropolitan dailies, the careful suckering of suspicious reporters, the old rah-rah for the worthy causes. And then all at once the first big fight, and a piece of good luck that money couldn't buy: the ex-champ, punch-drunk from his last big beating, dies in the hospital after the big boy takes him-just as Ernie Schaaf died after his 1933 fight with...
Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...