Word: carillonned
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...Chicago's Gothic chapel, as the sound of bells from no direction that one could fix filled and emptied the air, now eerily fading, now resurging like a seashell's roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given in memory of his mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who liked bells...
Last April Chicago's carillon was tested at Croydon, England, before the Bishops of Croydon, Guildford and Norwich and 2,700 English & Irish bell ringers. Chicagoans inside & outside the chapel last week heard Carilloneur Lefévere, imported from Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, play "Now Thank We All Our God," a spot of counterpoint by Handel, "Annie Laurie," a Welsh folksong arid an ancient hymn from the Low Countries, home of the carillon...
...Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 23. Vassar graduate, youngest daughter of Elon Huntington Hooker, financier, engineer, electrochemist; in Manhattan. In the Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, the world's No. 1 nonroyal heir, tall and saturnine, took a Rockefeller-worthy bride, tall, handsome, healthy. Aloft, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller (grandmother) carillon pealed its world's biggest 72 bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers, no grandfather, for John Davison Rockefeller, 93, departed for Ormond Beach, Fla. two days before...
...carillon in Ottawa's Peace Tower, Carilloneur Robert J. Donnell played in succession all the local airs of the Empire countries, burst into "Pomp & Circumstance" at the approach in an open carriage of His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby (pronounced punsunby), Earl of Bessborough and Governor General of the Dominion of Canada...
Blurbed The Carillon ("A National Quarterly of Verse") in its spring issue: "Theodore Roosevelt, Governor General of the Philippine Islands, claims that he cannot write poetry. The Carillon has been honored with ... his first contribution. We believe our readers will differ with 'T. R.' " Onetime explorer. Poet Roosevelt contemplates explorers, known & unknown, in On a Pass in Szchewan. Excerpts: Around its lie the snowfields, smooth and white...