Word: yelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to answer Shea's frantic cries for help was David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41. Already famous as the ice cream champion of the University, Mitchell sprang to the rescue with a yell and a pair of gloves. A few minutes later he retired with his gloves torn to shreds and his hands lacerated in a dozen places, leaving the squirrel in complete triumph...
...bats & balls, and about 100 baseball men milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting. The old fellow was Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager, treasurer, president and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics. The occasion was his 75th birthday...
...attention, brings many Welsh-Americans across the Atlantic. Last August's eisteddfod took place at Machynlleth where Owain Glyn Dwr (Owen Glendower) became Prince of Wales in 1403. A specially built auditorium, accommodating about 12,000, houses each eisteddfod. Poets, orators, artists and singers compete. Audiences sit tensely, yell their applause. The winning team earns its town a place in history...
...Harvard cheer made its appearance at Saturday's game when leaders called for a Harvard locomotive. Starting from the band, prepared in advance, the yell spread quickly through the stands...
...cheer leaders are going to try to instill into this year's stands. Whether cheering makes the team or the team makes the cheering, as in the 1936 Princeton game, is beside the point. The point is simply that last year the cheer leaders were frankly "no good." Good yell leaders form the first requisite for good cheering...