Word: yells
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...crowd watched the Akron rise to 2,000 ft. with the one man still dangling beneath her. The heat grew oppressive. A yell went up as the lump at the end of the cable showed life. Sailor Charles ("Bud") Cowart had straddled a toggle above the ring at the end of the cable, was taking two bowline hitches about his waist. Several times' Lieut. Commander Rosendahl maneuvered the tossing ship toward earth, but fearing that Sailor Cowart would be bashed to death, soared again. Firemen stretched nets to try to catch him if he fell...
...That for your work," said Mr. Kingsbury, sweeping all of Mr. Fleishhacker's papers to the floor. Whereupon the burly banker arose with a yell, grabbed a cane and, hatless, chased the President of Standard Oil out of the bank and down the street...
...mysterious correspondence with whatever I desired and undertook." Whenever, across the street, the pageant of a funeral procession wound its way up to the cemetery on the hill, with incense burning, bells ringing, people singing and wailing, the child was filled with glee. "I used to sing, whistle, and yell as loud as I could, letting the bead swing as far as it would...
...things he has recognized that the college is for the students, and whatever occurred the students were always uppermost in his mind. They did not have to be told that, they knew it instinctively, and no cheers have ever echoed on the campus to compare with the 'long yell for Jimmy.' It was the one way they could adequately express their love and devotion...
This was only one of the eulogies tendered last week at a banquet in Manhattan. Few U. S. college students or alumni have the occasion, or the inclination, to give a long yell for the grandson of one of the college's first patrons. But Colgate University yelled lustily for 68-year-old "Jimmy" Colgate at a banquet celebrating his 50 years of association with the university, as student, alumnus, patron. President Hoover sent a telegram of congratulation. So did Chief Justice of the U. S. Charles Evans Hughes, who went to Colgate for two years. Finance Chairman Myron...