pep rally/speech/squad

[Benjamin Zimmer]

* pep rally (OED3 1920)

1915 _Daily Review_ (Decatur, Ill.) 17 Mar. 12/3 A "pep" rally for the
debate will be held in the chapel by the J.M.U. students on Thursday or
Friday morning.

* pep speech (OED3 1916)

1912 _Coe College Cosmos_ (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 18 Nov. 3/2 In the absence
of our regular college orator Prof. Hickock was called upon to make a
little pep speech.

* pep squad (OED3 1920)

1918 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 9 June 9/6 The "pep squad," sent out by the
Emergency Fleet corporation of the United States shipping board, has begun
an active campaign in Chicago and vicinity for the purpose of speeding up
work in all plants where work on ships' parts is going on.


--Ben Zimmer