Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Best Thing Devoted Nazis are fond of telling with utmost seriousness about the great German industrialist who found his daughter moping, tried to cheer her up by telling her she could have whatever she wanted for her birthday. "Alas, father, rich as you are, you cannot get me the only thing I want." "And what is that, daughter?" "Oh, if only I could have a child by Hitler!" With many a melting, impressionable Gretchen now in this state of mind, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler was seated last week at the Olympic Aquatic Stadium when a buxom female from Norwalk, Calif...
...Never losing the American spirit of good cheer While fighting for our glass of beer Never flinching in the battle Now we hear the dry bones rattle...
...Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest lips reproach the admirers of Franklin Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson for the cheer they sent up when one declared of the other: ''He was a great gentleman. He was a great commoner. The two are not incompatible...
...Topeka one evening Governor Landon, his wife, mother-in-law, three children and nurse climbed into a private railroad car furnished by a Union Pacific official, rolled off toward Colorado. Two Pullmans carried the Press. At every stop there were several hundred proud Kansans waiting to cheer the second Kansan ever nominated for the Presidency.- "Hyah, Alf!" cried they as Nominee Landon appeared on the platform, grinning and waving, leaning down to pump outstretched hands. "It's mighty nice of you to come down to the station," drawled he to some. With others he exchanged news about the wheat...
When Hawthorne wrote his grim Glimpses of English Poverty he started a tradition for U. S. authors of travel books which has persisted ever since. Brooding, melancholy, suspicious of the claims of foreign patriots, Hawthorne found little to cheer him except the occasional kindness shown by slum children to children still smaller. Critic Edmund Wilson was writing in that classic, if somewhat astringent, mood when last month he offered his skeptical impressions of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts...