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...people who look down from the roof of Madison Square Garden at hockey games had given him a nickname-"Red Light" Miller, drawing their title from the signal that flashes when a goal-guard lets in a shot. They had given Miller what is locally known as the Bronx Cheer, a huzzah of sarcastic intention. Rattled, Miller begged to be sent back to the minor leagues "where they wouldn't razz him." Now he was called to take the most important position on a team tied with the favorites for the hockey championship of the world...
Twelve thousand people sat around the rink as the players skated out for the deciding game. Big French-Canadians from the east side of Montreal (the French side) were there to cheer the Rangers, disliking the Maroons for beating the Canadians. And in a furious game in which, when the referee disallowed a Montreal goal, the crowd threw overcoats, hats, papers, garbage, and bottles on the ice-in which Miller whirled his arms and legs like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank...
...University is counting on the pleasure and honor of entertaining the West Point war lords next fall when they arrive en masse from their Hudson stronghold to cheer on their gridiron team against Harvard in the Stadium October 20 it must first of all throw its gauntlet into the arena in opposition to such a rival as Governor Fuller. For it seems that both Massachusetts in general and Boston in particular have social designs on the Army cadets when they invade the East to display their vocal enthusiasm in the Harvard stands...
...followed by an official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
Last week Dictator Stalin, speaking through Pravda, strove to warn both peasants and industrials that they imperatively must increase sowing and production if economic Russia is not to perish in a dwindling vicious circle. By way of striking a note of cheer, Pravda observed that the peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet...