Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regime the 1921 varsity crews made a very favorable showing against the powerful Yale crews at New London Under the same system of instruction progress has been consistent. Graduates and undergraduates may rest assured that whatever the final outcome may be of this afternoon's bitter struggle, they can shout lustily at the end: "Well rowed, Harvard...
...practical to undergo this training! When they graduate from the university, they need only open their months and roar with that lusty volume developed on the gridiron, where the embattled players stood. Their bellows will be a shout heard round the world, and all the baseball umpires, hash slingers, train announcers, and senators will muffle their cars in terrified haste. The yell king's thunder is their doom, for only the fittest can survive. He who yells loudest yells best and becomes a superman...
...first start, the pistol failed to go off and the starter's shout of "Row" caught the Freshman crew unawares, so that a bad crab was caught. A second time, Groton made a clean, getaway, but the 1928 oarsmen were still somewhat disorganized and ropped nearly half a length behind. Rowing at 42 strokes to the minute, they quickly caught up and with a lowered stroke had forged a length ahead by the halfway mark...
...press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan, two Italian gentlemen striving for the place of "leading tenor of the Metropolitan." For several seasons, these two have vied with each other; and still some operagoers will emphatically murmur: "Giovanni Martinelli," others vulgarly shout: "Beniamino Gigli." Last week, in an advertisement for a concert, appeared Beniamino Gigli's name with the caption: "The World's Greatest Tenor." To such lengths had the chest-thudding come. More shouts, more murmurs followed. "With what right," asked many operagoers, "does he say that...
...five quid to a "bawber that David Kirkwood didn't shout, "Wot abaht the Red letter?" (wte your issue of Mar 16, Page 8), when he interrupted the monocled son of Brummagem Joe in Parliament. What he probably said was: "What about...