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...South is inestimably grateful for this good news, delivered much in the manner of Queen Marie of Roumania after admiring the local pickle factory. Those citizens who still feel some continuity with the South of Washington, Jefferson and Lee will doubtless now begin to see the light. The rebel yell will be given for the prophet of Baltimore, who is so kind as to lead the backward Confederacy out of its heathen darkness. That great soul, however, should be careful not to carry the reform too far. When he has destroyed the prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy...
...Cornell is doubtless noisiest and most irreverent of college cheers, still it has a certain vigor about it that is attractive. The original form was 'Cor-Cor-Cornell! I yell! Cornell!', but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run 'Cor-Cor-Cornell! I yell like H---l! Cornell!' It is needless to add that the female members of the University prefer for it as it stood originally...
...cartoonist's picture of a retired farmer, bristled at the chin whiskers when he lauded U. S. intervention, thereby pleasing many of his constituents who would like to have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which Calles aspires to be the ruling spirit...
...lottery for the benefit of lay patrons of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard by Mrs. Snook in Aurora, Ill., over the radio hook-up installed to broadcast the President's speech. Said Mrs. Snook (TIME, May 26 1924): "When I recognized Mr. Snook's holler, I knew he was all right." ith the students of Smith College.... This conclusion is deduced...
...president of the University of Washington, I recently commenced publication of a little magazine called Hartley's Weekly. But I still am not without troubles. The other day, when walking past a high school building near the capitol, I heard a downy-cheeked, 14-year-old lad yell: 'There goes old Hartley-he's going to get it in the neck when the recall comes.' I stopped instantly to administer a thoroughgoing reprimand. Other youths gathered around me. Said I: 'If that's what you fellows are taught in school, you might as well...