Word: chantings
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...ripsnorting, eloquent paper was the Courier-Journal in the old days when Colonel Henry Watterson, founder and first editor, ran it. ''Marse Henry" used to end his World War I editorials with the chant: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
...Coliseum tunnel moved the Willkie car; a band played "Back Home Again in Indiana," spotlights cut through the dark, and the crowd's cheers settled into the powerful, hypnotic Philadelphia chant of "We Want Willkie!" over & over...
...Voice continued, for 45 minutes, intermittently sustained a sonorous tom-tom chant...
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...