Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Point Army Band, accompanied by the penetrating soprano voice of Nannette Guilford, delivered the National Anthem. Margaret Anglin, tragedienne, gave a dramatic reading. Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of Correction, made a speech on "spiritual tendencies." A battery of "seventy-fives" roared a salute of thirteen guns. One of the gunners caught his hand in a breechblock. A physician had to be called...
...band struck up The Star Spangled Banner. Small flags rained down from the ceiling. Anna Case, famed singer, repeated the words of the anthem. Then everybody twisted his head around and looked backward while the official photograph was taken...
Eight hundred French War orphans marched past the U. S. military cemetery at Suresnes on Memorial Day. They carried the Stars and Stripes and chanted Les Girondins, revolutionary anthem, the chorus of which...
Belgians returned the stones and entered into a vocal contest with the Dutch by shouting their Brabançonne. (national anthem...
...enough, a great deal of dissatisfaction with "Bright College Years," but with the end of the conflict it was expected that this song could be resumed. However, unforeseen difficulties arose. The inflow of prominent Allied visitors made it impossible on many occasions for the Elis to sing their college anthem. Of most vidid memory to Harvard men is the game in the Bowl two years ago when M. Clemenceau was the cause of "For God, for country, and for Yale" being sung mentally...