Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moments later the royal motor passed slowly over cobble stones still wet with blood drawn by the bomb. A pandemonium of cheering rose about His Majesty: "Viva il Re! . . . Glory to Savoy! [the Royal House] . . . Live! Long live the King...
...dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside their veils but rose to the occasion with knee-length skirts. "Viva! Viva!," cried gallants...
...criticism, to make scientific discoveries, or to contribute to the world's literature. That they are required to lecture at all is, in many cases, an anachronism. The systematic or amphitheatre course of lectures in most subjects might with advantage be abolished and its place taken by tutorial classes, viva voc classes, or what they call in America the "Quiz...
...Salvador. Three cannon blasts bumped the air and the thickening crowd at the air field cheered. Col. Lindbergh was due in one hour. Late comers chugged eagerly up, arguing excitedly at tripled taxi prices; their eyes on the sky. Presently the shattering "Viva Lindbergh." The crowd charged the plane; Col. Lindbergh screamed them back. 'It took 15 minutes for his escort to push him through the crowd to the hangar where waited President Pio Romero Bosque, the Cabinet, the General Staff, diplomats...
...unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator, had quips and fancies to offer at St. Martin's Church in Trafalgar Square, London. He opened a "question box," a sort of forum during which he offered to answer pontifically questions thrown at him viva voce. Verbally he did what he has been doing in the columns of the New York Herald Tribune* for more than a year. Some Cadmanswers, some Cadmonitions: ¶Rotary gatherings "are not intellectual triumphs. They are daily lunches." He has often attended them. ¶ "The evolution flurry has done one great good...