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...event of strafing: Yell, "Hi Yo, Silver!" point finger at plane and imitate the sound of rapid gunfire. Call the Fourth Interceptor Command and demand to know where the hell our Army and Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: San Francisco's Nerve Center | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

LaGuardia is still to be chief of OCD. With plenty of yell left in him, he announced that Dean Landis "will take the details of the office administration off my shoulders. I will then be able to devote more time to perfecting the organization throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Landis to OCD | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Alfred Rosenberg gave Adolf Hitler words for his feelings, sales talks for what he wanted to sell. Hitler echoed and expanded them in Mein Kampf. But whereas Rosenberg was at his best across a beer-hall table, Hitler learned to yell the Rosenbergian language through the microphones to millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rosenberg's Russia | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...horse-drawn "barges," which seem to have been the 1891 version of army transport trucks, late Friday afternoon. Some 500 undergraduates gathered to see the team off and to cheer. They opened with three times three for Harvard and then gave each of the 22 men a separate yell. After cheering the trainet, the coaches and excaptain Cunnock, inventor of the tackling dummy, the crowd chased the barges from the Johnson gate to the site of the Union, cheering madly and ending up with a three times nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 YEARS AGO WHEN HARVARD, ELI FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

Anyway, that is the gist of what each Eli says when he gives the Long Cheer, for in Aristo phones' "The Frogs" the frogs yell at the people going to the underworld. "Bre-ke-ke-kex," which translated into American vernacular means "Go to h--, you bums." At the same time, the bre-ke-ke-kex is the three staccato dots and the long dash which stand for "V" for Victory." --From the Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/18/1941 | See Source »

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