Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, D.C. khaki-clad men, unsteady on their crutches, struggle up a hill leafy with June. Other wounded soldiers, in dark red trousers and jumpers over their pajamas, creak along in wheel chairs pushed by white-uniformed nurses. The slow parade's destination is the grey stone chapel of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. The wounded men go there to pray for the success of the invasion of Europe and for an early peace...
...military leaders. Officers could not spare time from the battlefronts to appear as witnesses. Said New Dealing Representative John W. Murphy, of Dunmore, Pa. : "It seems strange and unusual . . . when we are having the greatest crisis in the history of our world, that instead of being in the chapel on our knees praying, we have men here attempting as palace guards, or desk generals...
...years (until Victoria selected Buckingham Palace), later was the official residence of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales. The old brick palace suffered mainly from blast. All its stained glass on the north side was blown in, along with the great mullioned windows of the Chapel Royal. The clock face in the north side of the tower, a London landmark, was blown away...
...letters home from captured British and other Allied airmen pictured Stalag Luft III as one of the best prison camps in Germany. The barracks squatted in a spacious clearing among the pine woods northeast of Dresden. The prisoners had a chapel, library, playing field and garden. They lazed through a 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. day. They took walks, naps, sun baths. They had rugby and cricket matches. They attended lectures (science, languages, history, elocution). The food was heavy on soup and potatoes, but Red Cross parcels and afternoon tea kept British spirits up. Last March 22, Stalag Luft...
...last week's meeting, one of the top-ranking U.S. classicists, Princeton University's young Choirmaster Carl Weinrich, who at Princeton University's Chapel plays an $18,000 modern organ as if it were Bach-type, offered modern organ compositions by Virgil Thomson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston...