Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant of the fir-groves, whose dark corridors were stirred by the slightest wind; the hiccup of new springs gushing out amidst the pastures; the brooks licking the weeds with their greedy lapping tongues; the creaking of sick trees already bare and slowly cracking in two ; the hollow rumbling...
Gian-Carlo Menotti was born near Milan. His father was a wealthy importer who did business with Colombia. His mother taught Gregorian chant in a local church. Save for her, young Gian-Carlo had little music instruction until he was 18. In that year Father Menotti died, and Gian-Carlo went to South America to set tle his accounts. Later, in New York, he met Rosario Scalero of Curtis Institute who got him a scholarship there...
London: Throngs demonstrate against Stanley Baldwin for the first time since the General Strike. In front of his official residence, No. 10 Downing St., they chant: "The King is right, Baldwin is wrong!" They march on to sing: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! in front of empty Buckingham Palace. They swing around into Piccadilly and at No. 145 bawl loud enough for the Duke & Duchess of York to hear: "Stand by him! We want King Edward! Perish the politicians...
...noisy ruffians no more may chant...
Bewildered, Mrs. Joe Louis, sitting beside Author Carl Van Vechten, fainted dead away. Almost equally astonished, the rest of the crowd set up an angry roar. It continued, a disappointed and monotonous chant, until, in the twelfth round, long since dazed by the steady, systematic pounding of Schmeling's right fist against his jaw, Superman Louis went down again. This time, as he wriggled on the canvas, the referee counted...