Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothes, appeared suddenly on the Kurfürstendamm but seemed at first not to know quite what to do. Soon group leaders dashed up in snorting Mercédès and the Jew hunt was on, a peculiar feature being that the sidewalk crowds joined in a hunting chant taught them by the hunters. This was roared out one line at a time by the group leaders, all present then repeating in a fervent chant: Perish Jew! Get the Hell out! Blood-running noses! The best Jew is a dead Jew! Perish Jew! Suiting action to words...
...rich Bible student who left money to assure its performance, the Pilgrimage Play presents the entire life of Christ. The actors, like Ian Maclaren who has been Christ for six years, are professionals. The director is Phil Whiting, professional Los Angeles pageant producer. A hidden orchestra plays softly, voices chant ancient church music. The Pilgrimage Play goes on nightly for ten weeks...
...spoke to him was a rich, retired lawyer named David Alexander Dunlap who had made his money not at the bar but by grubstaking prospectors, acquiring shares in the pioneer mines of the Cobalt field. Dr. Chant's talk impressed David Dunlap profoundly. He spoke to his wife about his idea of giving the university an observatory with a powerful telescope. Not long afterward he died...
...widow, however, did not forget his idea. For years she pondered it, conferring at times with Dr. Chant. Finally announcement was made of a gift of $500,000. Together Widow Dunlap and Astronomer Chant looked over the ground near Toronto, found a suitable site on a ridge nine miles from the city. Her son laid a cornerstone. A graceful administration building went up, with three housings for small telescopes on the roof. Fifty yards away a great telescope was installed in a circular building topped by a gleaming copper-clad dome...
Last week came Clarence Augustus Chant's 70th birthday. That same day David Dunlap Observatory was officially opened and Dr. Chant officially became its director-master of the world's second largest telescope in service...