Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant and the somewhat tedious Kansas University song, The Crimson and the Blue, the Landonites studied the merits of I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby but finally passed it up as dangerous, catchy though the air is. Official campaign words for Oh! Susanna, with their phrases about...
When a Dubliner is about to quote William Butler Yeats he stills his hearers and puts quotation marks in the air by raising his right hand as if to take an oath. Yeats himself never raises his voice above a faint chant. Absentminded, mystical, called the most complete type of fop that has ever appeared in literature, he has gone his dreamy way regardless of critical catcalls. has steadily grown in the estimation of Ireland and the world. Of the small, select number of first-rate modern poets, Yeats is certainly one. An old man now (70), he writes little...
...determined advocacy of in land waterways is none too pleasing to U. S. railroads. Yet this does not worry J. & L. because it makes no heavy rails. However, 70% of its capacity is in other heavy steel products, such as pipes, mer chant bars and structural shapes. Though J. & L.'s plants are the envy of the industry, this preponderance of heavy products, which slumped worst in Depression, was what inspired last week's bond issues. A big modern strip-sheet mill will help balance its output...
...Penitentes no longer use nails because too many Cristos have died that way. For 45 minutes the Cristo hangs on the cross while around him his brothers chant, wail, scourge themselves with whips and cactus. Then the victim is cut down, carried back to the morada where awaits an enfermero with brews and unguents...
...their desks and wondered whether it would be constitutional for them to sharpen their pencils. No one gave them advice. There was peace along the Potomac, the peace that arises on those infrequent occasions when politicians admit that some thing surpasses their understanding. Not a Republican voice rose to chant triumphantly that Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Not a Democratic voice promised that Humpty Dumpty would be put to gether again. "No news on that today," was all that the White House had to say on the most momentous of political questions...