Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the grand ballroom of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, last week strode Chicago's Mayor, William Hale Thompson. Thereupon a band of Chicago high school students (on special vacation for the day) played the Mayor's campaign anthem, "America First, Last and Always," and a sextette of uniformed Chicago policemen harmonized on the same hymn...
...possible that in your colossal ignorance you do not know that the "Star Spangled Banner" is our official national anthem ? You must know this, and therefore your expression "to be" is sneeringly malicious and most offensive...
Since the U. S. is without an official national anthem, the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 is now disseminating propaganda with the object of persuading Congress to authorize a national anthem at its next session...
While listening to the strains of the Italian national anthem being played outside of his suite in the Copley-Plaza, Commander Francesco De Pinedo, Italian inter-continental aviator, gave an interview to the CRIMSON during his short stay in Boston...
...beginning, to the recurrent beat of waves which one hears continually throughout the poem, rolling "in a long wash of foam." It is free from those vested paradoxes and curious analogies which made so many pages of "Roman Barthalow" boring or even absurd! Mr. Robinson has here an anthem at all times worthy of his theme. There are occasional exceptions, but they are unimportant and are enormously overbalanced by the many passages in which the poetry is successful. One of the surest signs of Mr. Robinson's rank as a poet is the individuality of his rhythm; the "personality...