Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davison's anthem, "O Gladsome Light," was written in memory of Gustav Holst, who died last year, and was a personal friend of Dr. Davison, and through him, of the Harvard Glee Club. Somewhat reminiscent of Holst in its harmonic treatment, this anthem, sung by the Glee Club alone, built up an intensity of feeling which blazed out into a magnificent climax in the last verse...
...rose and burst into the Internationale. Afterwards German Charge d'affaires Dr. Fritz von Twardowski snapped: ''I had no right to participate in a demonstration for or against Stalin or any other Soviet leader. I consider my failure to rise fully justified in that the Red anthem was sung not as a part of the formal program of the Congress but as part of an ovation for Herr Stalin...
Negroes, so every Soviet child is taught, are the Black Hopes of Communism in the U. S. Sooner or later, if properly primed by Moscow, they will "arise and slash [their] thraldom's chains" as the Soviet anthem puts it. Nowhere else in the world is a Negro so pampered as in Russia. Last week that coal-black protege of Joseph Stalin, Robert Robinson, was elected, somewhat to his surprise, to the Moscow Soviet...
...Royal Stuart tartan. In the musicians' gallery was King George's favorite dance orchestra, Mrs. Annie Shand's Band from Aberdeen, which has played at every servants' ball at Balmoral since the War. Mrs. Annie Shand and her band gallantly tackled the Greek national anthem for the royal foreigners. While King George and the Archbishop of Canterbury sat looking on, royalty and servants danced the Paul Jones. There were also the Spanish gavotte and the flirtation polka, but the feature of the evening was a Highland reel by Princess Marina after only two days' coaching...
Another change was to restore in Austria the Habsburg Imperial anthem and uniforms. Today when in full dress an officer in the army of Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas can barely be distinguished from an officer of Kaiser Franz Josef. When Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria recently conferred with Premier Mussolini he vowed afterward that "even the name Habsburg was not mentioned." but no Italian doubted last week that Il Duce had merely found it more convenient to sav "Otto...