Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since there was nothing else to do, the visitor spoke gently to the sobbing little girls. "Cheer up," he said several times. "Cheer...
Particularly joyous was Norway's Oslo. There the Storting suspended all parliamentary business while Oslo's Hambro, the nation's stern speaker, led a barking Norwegian cheer. Appropriately enough; Norsk Kron Prins Olav was not there to hear. With gallant stealth he had slipped off to Stockholm and Sveriges Princessa Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra...
...fill two lesser jobs on Judge, Editor Shuttleworth sent queries to 82 college wits, contributors to the Cheer Leaders department. He got Si replies, and most of the collegians were willing to quit school at once if they were offered desks...
...seems to Heywood Broun of the Class of 1910 that when Harvard beats Yale, that's news. So this week his trenchant page in the Nation is one long, but strangely two-headed complaint of the intense rivalry between the universities. The more vociferous head roars a regular Harvard cheer white its meek twin now and then barks faintly that this should not be so, and becomes full-throated only in the crescendo of a mutual anti-Princeton feeling intimated just above the signature...
Nevertheless one doubts the absolute permanence of the seal. The glorious afternoon is after all only a memory College spirit takes its bumps periodically; and underneath this periodicity there is clearly a proportion to that scorned symbol of Rotarianism, Success. The appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver feebly when the last white line is ninety yards away. There is no entity less abstract in its origins and manifestations than college spirit, and why it should be symbolized and paraded as a Platonic soul-affair, or a causeless hatred in perpetuam, is a mystery...