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...decorate Mayor Baker, as chief of the party, with a knighthood in the Legion of Honor. Red ribbons for all or for none was the demand of the other mayors. At an American club luncheon in their honor the mayors greeted General John Joseph Pershing with this cheer: "Omaho! Omaha! Omaha! Ha! Ha! Ha! PERSHING!" The club's president, Theodore Rousseau, extolled the French, warned the visitors that they could find "naughtiness" in Paris if they searched for it. Broke in Mayor Baker: "We've seen nothing naughty here yet. So if Mr. Rousseau would only lead...
...days ago I attended the Harvard-Princeton baseball game, and once more I was impressed by the dismal ineffectiveness of the three "Princetons!" at the end of the locomotive cheer it sounded like a triple iteration of: "We're Stung!" Indeed there is another, and still more unfavorable connotation, but since the latter is totally unfitted for ears polite I am unable to be more explicit...
...infinitely superior to the pinched-up and vocally inexpressive "Princeton!" I am inclined to think that the best tonal effect will be secured by avoiding the repetition of the word (Nassau), particularly if the tempo be a rapid one. Use a single "Nassau" at the end of the cheer, thus: "Nassau!" Note that the explosive accent is on the final syllable, the vocalization fairly well drawn out, and a very open vowel sound given to the second half of the word. Compare the concluding line of our college hymn: "Three cheers for Old Nassau." --Daily Princetonian...
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...faintly blue when the King entered in opera cloak and dress clothes, the Queen in a long, fur-trimmed cloak of gold lame, her silver hair surmounted by a diamond and emerald bandeau. "'Ooraw for 'is Majesty!" roared an oystermonger or perhaps a fishwife, and the cheer was on. Smokers then spontaneously knocked out their pipes, trod on their gaspers (cheap cigarets). "Pipe Lady May," whispered some to others. In the box with Their Majesties sat Lady May Cambridge (mentioned as George V's candidate for the hand of Edward of Wales) with her mother Princess Alice...