Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the green-decked, beflagged arch of the station entrance, down oak-garlanded stairs lined with Elite Guard troopers, he marched, smiled and saluted acknowledgment to straining thousands in the streets. With the savage chant of Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! ringing in his ears, he entered his automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn...
Willkie flashed a broad grin when he heard the demonstration start and the galleries begin to chant: "We want Willkie." Then he ducked downstairs for a conference with ex-Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, who reportedly said to him: "If you're still in there pitching on the fourth or fifth ballot I'm with...
Savagely, in a can-opener contralto, Mile. Oswald ripped into La Dame de Monte Carlo, Poet Jean Cocteau's half song, half chant of the tables, the croupiers and "always the Mediterranean waiting." The mobile was removed, its discs and wires jittering gently. Mile...
...well-tried masterpiece was a re-enactment of Daniel in the lion's den. The Rev. Mr. Thompson whirled like a dervish, shadowboxed, raced with miniature fury up & down the platform, dropped to his knees to carry on in a high-pitched chant. Down front, the sinners whooped & hollered. On the stage sat five guest preachers. Pretending they were lions, Preacher Thompson poked them in the ribs. "Dan'l used a lion for a pillow," cried he, hurled himself on to their laps...
Following Gilbert's script to the letter, but stirring ketchup into Sullivan's score, Tropical Pinafore shifted base from foggy England to a banana-bright Caribbean isle. Opening with a jungle chant that Sullivan neglected to write, it burst into syncopation when a huge, black, big-bosomed Little Buttercup appeared, calling Dick Deadeye picklepuss and shaking her gargantuan hips...