Word: chanted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Onetime Bolivian Foreign Minister Eduardo Diez de Medina squirmed uncomfortably on his bench in the La Paz Chamber of Deputies one day last week. From the packed galleries above him angry Bolivian spectators hissed & booed, kept up a steady chant of "Down with the Jews! Death to the Jews!" Jingoistic Congressmen waggled their fingers under his nose, made long speeches about national honor. Then, with deliberate gait, gumshoeing Deputy Jordan Velasco strode forward, lifted his eyes to the balconies, bellowed out: "I am proud of being an accuser. And, without wishing to compare myself with Zola, I accuse." Defendant Diez...
...good sense to hurry their distinguished guest into the Embassy by a side door before he was noticed. Members of the Embassy staff and newspapermen waited on the front steps. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans wandered into the crowd and snapped some pictures. The groups began mumbling a chant, which gradually grew to not "Viva Wallace," not "Viva Avila Camacho," but "Viva Almazán." This was a crowd of supporters of the defeated Presidential candidate, protesting U. S. recognition of Avila Camacho...
...resuscitation of drowsy Marlene Dietrich. Traipsing through the islands of the East Indies with a trollop's parasol and two larcenous bodyguards (Broderick Crawford and Mischa Auer), she encounters a well-groomed wing of the U. S. Navy, casts languorous glances at a promising lieutenant, sings a dolorous chant beginning: "See those shoulders broad and glorious? See that smile? That smile's notorious. You can bet your life the man's in the Navy,"* at a cafe conducted by wheezing Billy Gilbert...
...ripsnorting, eloquent paper was the Courier-Journal in the old days when Colonel Henry Watterson, founder and first editor, ran it. ''Marse Henry" used to end his World War I editorials with the chant: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
...Coliseum tunnel moved the Willkie car; a band played "Back Home Again in Indiana," spotlights cut through the dark, and the crowd's cheers settled into the powerful, hypnotic Philadelphia chant of "We Want Willkie!" over & over...