Word: attila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...
Supine America needs to be reminded that it is only twenty miles across the Bering Straits from Red Siberia to Alaska. The young men of the country who some day will be called upon to defend the haven of liberty against the new Attila are asking little enough from an apparently ungrateful nation. Their demands must be met before it is too late...
This fine distinction put Comrade Yaroslavsky on his mettle last week. On the one hand he was moving like an Attila through the Province of Moldavia, taking Red vengeance on still pious citizens who were found to have raised the standard of religion. On the other hand, Godless Yaroslavsky was keeping up a keen fight in the Moscow Press with organized young Red zealots who claim that shock brigadiers like themselves have no time for the bliss of placid wedlock. The rumpus started when Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the 5,000,000 Communist Youths, printed a symposium of letters from...
Cried Mayor Walmsley: "Huey Long . . . that madman! . . . coward! . . . pirate! . . . Caligula! . . . Nero! Attila! Henry VIII! Louis...
...favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back to Europe with them from the East...