Word: chants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That breezy little Scot B. (for Bertie) C. (Charles) Forbes went back to 1928 to find anything like it, but the nation's storekeepers were glad to chant: "The best holiday trade since 1930." Christmas shopping in Washington started ten days earlier and was 30%, ahead of last year. Two big Atlanta department stores reported their business up 25%. In Memphis and Dallas there were merchants who were rubbing their hands over 50%, increases. Toy buying in Chicago was the best since boom days. And sober estimates last week placed the probable dollar volume of holiday buying 16%, above...
...slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian: "If you don't send those murderers to the electric chair we'll kill them ourselves...
...until the visitors reached Manhattan last week did their political creed make really riotous headlines. At New York University a crowd of students gathered outside the Hall of Fame, yelled "To Hell with Fascism!" The Italians marched out, cheerfully drowned the hecklers with a chant of "Il Duce! Il Duce! Il Duce! II Duce!" Policemen prevented more than a few mild fisticuffs...
...chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
...full between two trains, a moment of silence in the traffic, and a wayfarer cocked an incredulous ear to catch the faint strains of Gregorian chant coming from under the bridge...