Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senior students have gone out as members of the touring choir, proven themselves as choristers. But back in Dayton they have learned more than the art of group singing. The Williamson course includes ear-training, conducting, hymnology, English, harmony, musical theory, history of music, Bible and church music literature. Five school days a week begin at 7:30 A. M. In addition there is field work, the organizing and conducting of graded choirs; then a tour (thus the personnel of the first choir changes each year); then church positions to be administered in the Williamson way. Already more than...
...swift racing horses and lured her. And Sophie, hesitating, wondering, hoping he might have the answer Lynn had failed to give, staggered out to him in the stormy night, escaped with him to the great outside. Yet even in the escaping she knew that some day she would come back to the white safety of Lynn and his house...
...whenever the races are over, the play is wildest. Losers are trying desperately to win it all back. Winners are giving their luck a ride. There are only a few minutes left. For Tiajuana has practically no hotel accommodations and the U.S. border closes...
...generally believed that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled to a vice den and repeatedly assaulted. Thomas Peteet, miserably ashamed, turned on the gas in a San Diego hotel and killed his whole family. Four Mexicans were tried for the crime, and acquitted...
...essay): "To propose such a transaction to Mr. H. G. Wells is like offering the Archbishop of Canterbury a handsome cheque for dropping a recommendation of somebody's shoes or soap into his next sermon, or sounding the Astronomer Royal as to the possibility of keeping the clock back for half an hour during a big sale. ... Its acceptance would be the last depravity of corruption in literature. . . . For ... an author to accept payment from a commercial enterprise for using his influence to induce the public to buy its wares would be to sin against the Holy Ghost...