Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bureau at Joliet, had to listen last week while 27 bands comprising 2,000 high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...
...Padua three Jugoslav students "asked for it" by loudly and arrogantly singing a Jugoslav anthem, to which, it was alleged, they somewhat foolishly added insults to Italy, Fascism, Mussolini, always a dangerous procedure in Italy these days. Only the prompt intervention of the police saved these foolhardy youths from a fate that would not have stopped short of cudgelings and castor...
...bushy mustachios, for he had conspicuously brought himself to the notice of the Viennese, who are so hazy about their Chief Executive that many are alleged not to know his name. Still more gratifying was the news that Lower Austria (a province) may adopt the poem as its official anthem, not having had a song of its own since the fall of the monarchy...
...Melody of the oldtime Austrian anthem has been used as Alma Mater by at least one U.S. university: Wisconsin...
...great Verdi listened. The Khedive whistled Obadiah. Soon the Egyptian National Anthem was composed...