Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feast on good cheer, and good liquor to quaff, ' And forgetting our labors to sit down and laugh...
...himself threw into the wastebasket, and made it the basis for most of the play. To exploit its elephantine slapstick and bawdry, the Everyman sold its own soul to Hellzapoppin: threw in wisecracks about F. D. R., created the impression of medieval monks doing the shag, started a Yale cheer, thought up lines like "Calling all angels." The result was a muddled farce which might well have been titled Getting Goethe's Garter...
Forlorn note of cheer: marine underwriters lowered war-risk rates 1% on belligerent flag vessels to and from Europe and on U. S. flag vessels cargoing imports on the northern route; on the southern route, 1½ on belligerent vessels, ½on U. S. ships. Rates both ways for belligerents' vessels had been 7% on the northern route, 7½% on the southern; for U. S. vessels, 2½% on the northern, 2% on the southern. The export rate on U. S. vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held...
...Paris, Polish Singer Jan Kiepura tried to enlist in a Polish legion, instead was sent to cheer up U. S. Poles...
...News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a lusty cheer, America glided sedately down ways slicked with 45,000 Ibs. of grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical gentlemen...