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...highly publicized figure of the election was hard-hitting, dry-voting Lady Nancy Astor. At the end of a campaign that included everything from singing the national anthem to physical combat, she was returned to Parliament by the narrow squeak of 211 votes. Worn out by weeks of campaigning, she wept as the ballots were being counted and said: "I'm going back to Westminster anyway, and not back to Virginia as my opponents predicted. Thank God, I have never truckled to the liquor interests...
...editors shrieked to highest heaven that the Austrian team had "played foul," that the flag of Italy had not floated over the stadium, and that the Austrian brass band had played the old Italian royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing to play...
...Francis Boott Prize in musical composition has been awarded this year to Richard Lutz Phelps '29, of Arlington, for his anthem, "O Brightness of the Immortal Father's Fact," it was announced yesterday by Arthur Foote '74, chairman of the Committee for making the award...
Timorous Christians had best not probe too deeply into Christian ritual. The flames of Christian candles may blend weirdly with druid fires. Behind a pure-throated Christian anthem may pipe the skirling music of an impish Pan. Mithras, the Persian sun god and onetime idol of the Roman army, was born on Dec. 25. The Easter egg was symbolic before the Christian Easter, symbolic of fertility...
...Schoolboys' Anthem for Siam. Quite recently the venerable and sagacious ministers of His Majesty King Prajadhipok of Siam sat in conclave over a large official letter which had reached them from remote, outlandish Europe...