Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After each major act of Joseph Stalin's regime, a vast cheering throng swells into the Red Square, carrying aloft on long poles horrid caricatures of the enemies of Bolshevism, handsome likenesses of its Dictator. At 15° below zero last week, thousands of prospective demonstrators stood shuffling, stamping and blowing on their hands in narrow side streets and alleys adjoining the Kremlin Fortress in which J. Stalin lives, and the Red Square. They were all ready to march in and cheer as soon as the Soviet Supreme Court should hand down its batch of death sentences...
Phooey, Scallions, and Fishcakes on your most lousy choice of a "person-of-the-year." The Digest poll and Mrs. Simpson leave the same taste in my mouth. To your editors (note the votes cast) a big and mighty Bronx cheer...
...beneath the dignity of the Royal Family to send a wedding present to "The Other Juliana" and they rested upon their royal dignity amid general Dutch satisfaction. WThen Petronella & Martinus went to the village Town Hall for their First-Class wedding the whole countryside had turned out to cheer them but the Vice-Burgomaster, who performed the ceremony, lectured them in the same Dutch-uncle vein as the Burgomaster of The Hague used in lecturing Their Royal Highnesses. After completing the marriage with a stroke of his gavel, the Vice-Burgomaster concluded, "You two young people must...
...Years' Latin. For an A.B. two years of Greek or three of Latin, together with two years of either French or German, are necessary. Both candidates for A.B.'s and S.B.'s must have a reading knowledge of French or German. If the heads of the scientific departments could cheer for the elimination of the classics requirements, they should also be able to favor a correct application of the S.B., for almost three-fourths of the 1936 honors men concentrating in the sciences received A.B.'s. What last June's "laude" graduates did may be considered a fair representation...
...whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...