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During the Army-Navy football game of 1894, the midshipmen set up a wild shout when a Navy player wearing a football helmet trotted out on the field and took his place in the line. In those days football players wore neither numbers nor helmets. So from his conical headgear the midshipmen knew who the player was and that his skull had been injured earlier in the year. "Reeves!" they shouted, "Bull Reeves!" And when Navy won (6-4), the midshipmen gave"Bull" Reeves credit for having saved the game...
Hecklers were so numerous that Orator MacDonald had to use a megaphone to shout them down. "I am impatient with the slowness of nations to stabilize currency!" he bellowed, purple-faced. "The mills of the Gods grind slowly . . . We are never going to have full, free trade unless we know what the relation is between the dollar and sterling and the franc. Let us build up the machinery of a cooperative world! And one of the first bits of machinery will deal with the question of how the various coinages are going to be exchanged...
...hopped Committeeman John Camillus Lehr of Monroe. Mich., to shout: "I want it to appear on the Committee's record that there has never been a contraceptive in my home. I have six children...
...glassy water Plane No. 4 hoisted herself into the sky. Thirty minutes later the flagplane piloted by Commander McGinnis got off. For nearly two hours they circled over the bay while the remaining four charged up & down and smaller planes taxied around to kick up a swell. Finally a shout went up from the bridge of the U. S. S. Gannet, where stood Admiral David Foote Sellers, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet: "He's up!" Plane No. 5 had found a breeze off a point of land, had climbed on it. At five-minute intervals...
...register of the Imperial Household by the Minister of the Imperial Household. Not until it had been so entered was word flashed to Japanese cruisers in Tokyo bay to blaze away a 21 gun* salute while Tokyo sirens screamed and the whole metropolis joined in a thrice-repeated shout of Banzai! ("May you live 10,000 years...