Word: chantings
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...store windows are full of bargains and all day long radio announcers chant of good buys. Bars are booming. Bookies are coining money. Streets are literally packed, mostly with women who obviously have seen much worse times, leading two or three kids and all of them loaded down with packages...
...show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel's Boléro; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead...
Keep Smilin' (John Kirby; Victor). A primitive, mournful chant to the words "Let's keep laughing, let's be happy...
...regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless Buck" three times. In the confusion that followed, President Buck blushed deeply. But it would have been no chant of hypocrisy. Gene Buck was eased out, not kicked out. He retains a seat on the board of directors, is being kept on "in an advisory capacity," reportedly at $25,000 a year...
...burden of the patriotic dissertation by Messrs. Beaverbrook, Truman, Willkie was the same as that written in heart's blood on countless memos on the President's toy-cluttered desk: give the war effort a single director, give that director total powers. It was the chant of industry, the roar of the press. It was what the people had wanted since June...