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Word: chants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bearing red torches and the flags of 58 nations. The crowd of 23,000 cheered their foreign songs, their folk dances, their gymnastics, a collegiate shag performed by U. S. students. But it roared loudest when the spotlight fell on 13 delegates from Spain, jumped to its feet to chant the 'Loyalist anthem. For this was no Olympic sports festival but a pacifists' rally, the opening of the second World Youth Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youth Congress | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Flavor. In the Philip Morris factory in Richmond, where long lines of colored girls chant improvised songs all day long in the humid redolence of tobacco, Philip Morris cigarets are manufactured by virtually the standard process used by all the big popular brands-Turkish and U. S. tobaccos are mixed, sprayed with a special flavoring formula which gives each brand its own particular taste. Since taste is a big selling point, each brand's flavoring mixture is a trade secret, but the basis for all flavoring is rum. Only other ingredient cigaret companies reveal is a hygroscopic agent mixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...talk would presumably have made little impression in a world full of cigaret claims had not Philip Morris' smart advertising agent Milton Biow had a brain wave. He remembered an old Philip Morris slogan, "Call for Philip Morris," and hired a shrill-voiced dwarf named John Roventini to chant it on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...pantomime, dancing, choral singing like merry-go-round riders snatching at a brass ring. Artistically a desecration of Greek drama, Trojan Incident has nevertheless a mongrel excitement of its own: the tale flushes with pathos and movement, and some of Wallingford Riegger's music, such as the narrative chant The Song of the Horse, gives the story a rhythmic speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...wharf meeting concluded with a chant of "End the embargo on Loyalist Spain" to the tune of "Ring around the Rosy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND "BOSTON TEA-PARTY" DISAPPOINTS LARGE CROWD | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

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