Word: angels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast or an impostor . . . that an angel would descend from heaven with a sword in his hand, and would deliver the empire...
...angel did not appear. Moslems swept the church of its worshippers and stripped it of its movable riches; it was gutted of its Christian treasures and converted into a mosque. Byzantium crumbled to a few fragments like those at Baltimore and became a place for poets to dream about...
...baton at Santa María de Guadalupe, and the bell begins tolling. One by one José brings in the other bells, not just the eight played on ordinary days, but special bells like San Pedro, San Antonio. Then he silences them, each in turn, until only Santo Angel de la Guarda, sweetest-toned of all, tolls softly, a sign that down below in the cathedral the sermon is being preached. At the Gloria, he swings up his arms and all 18 bells peal out. José, the bellringer, stands on tiptoes, his fists thrust toward the sky, pure...
...three years of Dark Eyes, Danny Boy, The Rose of Tralee and no raises, Evelyn cut & ran for the King Cole Room at Washington's Hotel Claridge, was hired as a chanteuse. After another three years, she left a "strong Washington following" for Manhattan's leery Blue Angel. Then she recorded Dance with a Dolly for Decca. It sold more than 200,000 pressings. She was spectacularly...
Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...