Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weak candidate who leaned on the fact that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...
...many years as anyone cares to remember, the major social athletic event of the winte season has been the Harvard Dartmouth hockey game. Annually at one of the hippodromes of the Boston Garden Areas Corporation, some 5,000 loyal alumni of the two institutions assemble to cheer on their respective squads and swap insluts among themselves...
...right through my head." Two weeks later he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein on the curvature of the universe. When the Book-of-the-Month Club picked Gunther's then unfinished Inside U.S.A. (written largely during the costly attempts to save Johnny's life), he tried to cheer his father with, "Well, that solves the financial problem...
...dapper little man with the straw hat, the walking stick and the boutonniere emerged from Boston's State House, a cheer went up for "the greatest Italian of them all." Charles ("Get-Rich-Quick") Ponzi shrugged off the compliment. "No," he admitted, "Columbus and Marconi were greater. Columbus discovered America, Marconi discovered the wireless." Hysterical voice from the crowd: "But you discovered money...
When Mrs. Coolidge's father, mother, and husband died within 15 months of one another about 1915, Frederick Stock, then conductor of the Chicago Symphony, persuaded her to engage a house quartet to cheer her. Two summers later, when the Stocks were visiting her in the Berkshires, they went to a chamber music festival in Connecticut. At dinner that night, Mr. Stock suggested that Mrs. Coolidge's quartet should play at the festival. Her answer, "Why go so far; why not have it here?" was the beginning of the great scheme which has made the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts...