Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...croaked: "Franklin Roosevelt is not running against Wendell Willkie. He's running against Adolf Hitler.'' Many a GOPolitician moaned privately: "With Willkie a poor third." Polls showed that Willkie vas ho'.dmg his own, momentarily. He still drew curious crowds. But these things failed to cheer many Republican politicians. In their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole U. S. turned out to see Al Smith roll by, with cigar, brown derby, wisecracks, East S:dese...
...States where those votes lie thickest are Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wisconsin, Connecticut. Willkie could take cheer from the fact that the last Gallup poll gave him all but one of those States...
Clambakes. The casual atmosphere of a Mexican studio would give a U. S. radio producer the jitters. Performers wander around, often exchange quips with the studio audience. No "Applause" and "Silence" signs interfere with the fun at these clambakes. Studio spectators tolerate no interference with their right to cheer or boo. Like all Mexicans, they delight in amateur programs. Favorite among gong shows is one sponsored by Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Ipana) which has been broadcast from XEW every Thursday night for five years. Presided over by a glum, bald, dead-pan wag named Julio Zetina, the Bristol-Myers program...
That this is the first issue of TIME which Mr. Hanson has read is truly his great misfortune. I read it from cover to cover, and sometimes 1) I agree with you, 2) I disagree, 3) you make me fighting mad, 4) I want to stand up and cheer-and I doubt if there exists in this whole Dominion a more patriotic Canadian or a more fanatical "Britisher" than...
Next a Baltimore delegate, Edward J. Colgan Jr., nominated Millard Tydings interminably, pausing at last to remark doggedly "... I have given you but a partial picture . . ." to a cacophony of heartfelt boos. For Tydings there was but one feeble cheer. Wright Moody, a ponderous grey-haired Texan, nominated John Nance Garner monotonously for what seemed like hours to the sleepy, hot delegates. More boos...