Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fraternity", still in manuscript; in manuscript until the heroic author "deluged both the Yale faculty and the undergraduates" with cards. Apparently this injection had its desired effect for by showing Yale that its Bowl was a place where "mothers and fathers, sisters, classmates, alumni will cheer and shout and scream to drown the misery of their aching, mangled, bleeding sons and brothers", Mr. Gundelfinger has made Yale lose its grip--except, of course, for victories over Princeton and Harvard this year...
...rule we do not like books that speak of "this America of ours", but once in a great while we do appreciate the sentiment. By all means don't make the American eagle scream, but after he has been dubbed everything from hawk to cuckoo it is only fair that the poor bird should say something to remind us that he is, after all, an eagle...
...Which war? Why, the Great War, the War against Germany. Something a little more than three years ago hostilities came to an end along the far stretched "fronts". The guns stopped their clamour then; machine guns ceased their reaping; men no longer winced to the shrilling scream of the close-coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim...
...Harvey Kills League Hopes", or "U. S. Won't Accept League, Harvey Informs Britain", and other like statements were spread across the front of yesterday's journals. They were typical phrases--the scream of the eagle could be heard in each of them. But as a matter of fact, once the reader passed on to the speech itself, he discovered not only that it was most tactful and friendly, but that it brought out nothing very new or unusual after all. All that Mr. Harvey said was decided definitely by the whole country in the national elections six months...
...finest place in the world; second, that its people are the finest in the world; and third, that he is the finest of them all. But all the same, these old seamen were great characters. They didn't do any flag-waving, they didn't make the eagle, scream. They were sturdy, dignified and fond of having their own way; a phrase coined some years ago just fits them--100 percent American...