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...Tripoli, and Beyond," contains the following reference to "The Marines' Hymn": "But hard boiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their Corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions." (italics supplied...
...fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions...
...precedent for the residents of Lowell House. Nor does he wish to have it seem that the first resident of the new dormitory is showing any favoritism between those groups of Lowell House tutors who can't seem to decide between "Yankee Doodle" and "Rule Britannia" for a house anthem...
Usual Polish pandemonium broke out. Communists unfurled a huge red banner, flapped it in the faces of government deputies who closed their eyes and lustily bawled the "War Song of the Legionaries of the First Brigade" (favorite Pilsudski anthem), then marched from the hall...
...beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...