Word: yells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis. It is not good manners to yell at a tennis match-not etiquette to jostle ladies in the stands, to jump upon seats, toss cushions, straw hats into the air. Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4¶ sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third...
Like water-spiders, to the yell of slaves...
Backslapping, loud-laughing, jibe-yell- ing, hip-fumbling, baby-boasting, bet-making, do-you-remembering college alumni poured out of automobiles, airplanes, railroad trains and into the alma maters of the U. S. for their class reunions...
...boire" was the first yell of Gargantua after he was born. He thus intimated that drinking was one of the important needs...
...used by Gargantua, but I should like to have our directors provide us with some good cold water in various handy places in the library. If this is not done, it may happen that a tired or absent minded student, leaning back in his chair and yawning noisily, will yell, to the disturbance of many: "A boire." Alex Chalufour...