Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been combing hill and hollow across Arkansas for votes in next week's Democratic preferential primary. Normally a shoo-in, he is involved this year in a bitter, four-cornered fight. Last week at the annual Mount Nebo chicken fry near Dardanelle, Ark., one critic got the biggest cheer of the day when she attacked his absenteeism from his home state. Minutes later, Fulbright himself drew only lukewarm applause...
...have a picnic on the Common. And you can graze cattle on the common," he said. The big amplifiers for the electric music are directed away from the Garden Street houses. They stop playing during marriage ceremonies in the church across the street and start in again and cheer as the couple comes out the church's doors...
Children to Cheer...
...audiences. If I Had a Million, for example, tells of a quirky financier who sends million-dollar checks to strangers. A colorless clerk played by Charles Laughton receives his check in the mail, goes to the president of his company, sticks out his tongue and delivers a loud Bronx cheer. Blackout. In those precarious years, the vicarious thrill of giving a razz to the boss was irresistible-to say nothing of the complex moral that a nobody can suddenly acquire the money that can't buy happiness...
...cannot be cute, the late-show screen child seems like a kid who has stayed up past his bedtime. During the Depression parents somehow found their children easier to get along with -perhaps because they had a sense of sharing a common crisis. Children seemed comforting, or at least cheering. Hollywood fostered Jackie Cooper, Frankie Darro, Mickey Rooney, Our Gang and the apotheosis of innocence, Shirley Temple. "I class myself with Rin-Tin-Tin," she later said, referring to such films as Bright Eyes and Curly Top. "At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something...