Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maybe "Wintergreen" did it. Maybe not. At any rate, the sun came out of the clouds and the varsity took charge of the football on the two-yard line and started to push it downfield. The local partisans forgot all about those 41 points and began to cheer the team to a 14 to 13 victory in what some chose to regard as the second game of a double header...
...Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went on to lay down a proposition that would be heard again & again in the off-year election campaign; he hoped, he said, that the U.S. could eventually raise its income from $200 billion to $300 billion a year-enough to bring the national average to $4,000 a family. "That...
...Cheers for Honneybun. Last week they got both. As wedding bells rang out for royalty once again, sentimental London celebrated as it can only when romance is coupled with propriety. Two months ago King George VI, in answer (it was said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal, had granted permission for her music critic son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James...
Houston, who followed Valpey and received the biggest cheer of the evening, told the crowd, "It's great to be back in Cambridge. I think we'll do better if you'll stick...
...good cheer, my people, for it matters not which of these two shall prevail; for they are indeed one in courage, and in perseverance, and in The Will-to-Win; mighty are the skills, and crafty are their managers, even to the same degree; and where the one boasteth Page, the other hath Rickeys, even to the number...