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Word: chants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What I want," said Mr. Jewett, "is 23 Harvard men to act as super pilgrims. I mean pilgrims that are supers, not especially good pilgrims. They've got to look good in sack cloth, and they must be able to sing, or at least chant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salome Seeks Psalm Singers at Harvard--25 Sack Cloth and Ash Men Wanted for Two Weeks Pilgrimage in Boston | 10/8/1926 | See Source »

...instant many a steaming Dutch face grew morose. Then a private, thirsty, petulant, vexed, picked up a chair, hurled it through a window of the beer canteen. Defiant, the men" seized many a bottle, grew pot-valiant, daced to chant the "Internationale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netherlands: Beer Mutiny | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...remembered how she had loitered in the store, chatting with D'Ascali about the days when he studied music in Milan. Tonight he was not so nice; why, he seemed positively mocking. Why did he not stop singing when she spoke to him? The cobbler, leering, continued his chant, and standing at his counter Miss Davis suddenly recognized the aria. "Ah, Gioielli . . . gioielli della Mad-ho-ho-han-ah. . . ." Jewels of the Madonna! She remembered now. The rings, the brooches-she had left them in the toe of her shoe. Arrested, Louis D'Ascali denied his guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Louis | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...organ recital in Appleton Chapel this morning from 9 to 9.10 o'clock Dr. Pratt will play the following numbers: Chant Pastoral Dubois Choral Jongen

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organ Recital Today | 6/4/1926 | See Source »

...will sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead of the straggling pack of 85 others-out through Natick, around through Wellesley, back through Auburndale, up and down through Newton Hills, where Johnny Miles began passing Stenroos and dropping back, passing him and dropping back, nine times, until once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marathon | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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