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...they stove in the locked door of Government house, smashed Sir Ronald's choice parlor ornaments, knifed his oil paintings, fouled his bedroom. Setting fire at last to Government House in five places, Cyprus' Greeks burnt it utterly to the ground, sang as it burned the National Anthem of the Greek Republic...
...Actress Taylor (Peg o' My Heart, Out There, The National Anthem) he telephoned the information. Miss Taylor (now Mrs. J. Hartley Manners) remembered a brother had opened an account for her with $590. Compound interest had brought the amount to about $1,000. Said...
...Some Horrible Hemingways: George Newell Armsbyt vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp., and his brother James, San Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible...
Exuberantly Mediterranean, dear to the hearts of Young Italy, are these words which open the chorus of the official Fascist anthem. But the accompanying music, though certainly no worse than that of many another patriotic song, is what Variety calls "umpa umpa stuff." It is more singable, more lively than "The Star-Spangled Banner" but immeasurably less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because...
...blower era was to sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark. On rare occasions, dreadfully unforgettable, the pumper might lag from exhaustion "and wreck a full throated anthem or a shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward for faithful service varied from nothing (except the privilege of sitting out of sight during...