Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge gallery outside, told Espinosa that something had happened to Jones's second shot on the final hole. Heading for a trap to the left of the green the ball had stopped just short, in rough grass. The next thing Espinosa heard was a loud, but not wholehearted, cheer. Jones had pitched up, but his ball had stopped 12 feet short of the pin. "Let me look," blurted Espinosa and went to the locker room window...
...delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone through with a unanimous cheer, but for the fact that Congressman Burtness, anxious to make a gesture pleasing to his many constituents of Scandinavian extraction, began his resolution with a flowery preamble which said, among other things...
...Paris, followed Hero's Highway from sea to land. He left the S. S. Aquitania at Quarantine, sped up the harbor on a special tug, landed at Manhattan's Battery, motored up Broadway past City Hall. But not one whistle blew for Hero Young. Not one ecstatic cheer rose for him. Not one inch of ticker tape fell upon him. Insistently refusing a public reception, Hero Young made his homecoming a strictly private affair...
...promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...
...junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French?"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best shot: young David Durand beginning to cheer up when Chevalier puts on a three-cornered cap and plays the drum...