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Seaham's working (and jobless) men raised no cheer for. the Prime Minister. But a few women shrilled encouragement, heartened him to lift his hat and bow slightly as he entered Seaham Labor Hall. Inside. Seaham's 80 Laborite Committeemen, who always before had received Scot MacDonald standing & cheering, sat expressionless in their 80 chairs...
...Times are so serious today that everybody must cheer up his neighbor. So I'll try to do my share," remarked Professor Albert Einstein to a Berlin society audience last week. For two hours he entertained with learned explanations of such familiar phenomena as why tea-leaves gather in the centre of the cup, why airplanes fly. "Why does the wind die down at sunset, with the sailor left helpless out in the middle of the water?" said he. "This is a serious matter. I was once left with a young lady alone in a boat until...
...band plays "Anchors Aweigh." There is a mighty cheer from the ground crew. a noisy chorus of tooting horns from the automobiles on the hillsides as the Akron, unleashed for the first time, slowly rises as a free balloon, the blue flag of the Secretary of the Navy hanging from her control car, the U. S. ensign flapping at her stern. At about 500 ft. the two stern engines are started and the ship plows slowly into the west wind. Two more engines, then two more, until all eight Maybachs are driving the Akron over Portage Lakes and over...
...where the navigation of the ship on her long and difficult voyages was carried out. Farther aft, in the radio room, what is considered to be one of the most powerful instruments afloat, is to be inspected; this is the radio that carried dispatches and brought tidings of good cheer and sometimes bad news to the hardy explorers...
...universities students with automobiles often tie strips of inner tubing to the exhausts, which when the motor is suddenly speeded causes them to emit a familiar noise known as "the bird," "corporal's salute," or "Bronx cheer.'' In Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat...