Word: aves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strapped to an improvised operating table lay Andre di Bernardi, a spiritualist suffering from an inflamed appendix. While a phonograph played Gounod's Ave Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...
...Trolley Song, on 160,000 Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...
...Florence and Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head on a platter...
...taximen solemnly resolved that what cabbies needed was their own M.P.-someone in the House of Commons to get them : 1 ) a taxi transport board; 2) "every man his own cab." Cried Alf Wheeler of Hornsey, hoarsely: "Give us a bit of the democracy we ruddy cabbies 'ave braved the blackout...
...liturgy, the Black List includes all the religious music of Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini, Weber and Verdi, most of Haydn's and Beethoven's. Blacklisted also are such treacly items as At Dawning, I Love You Truly, Good Night Sweet Jesus and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. The great Johann Sebastian Bach, though he was a Lutheran, is on the White List...