Word: charioteer
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...Pilate as a genial, well-meaning Roman lawyer who is constantly having to cope with fanatics; Matthew as a tax collector so harried by his job that Christ's call comes as a welcome relief; Lazarus as a rich young Jewish cosmopolite whose death is caused by a chariot race he entered on the urging of his crony Pilate...
...necks call them 'Casey's cookie.' Another is a small, two-wheeled, self-propelled tank, with armored plating up front to protect the machine-gunner. The engineers say it will get where a tank won't, and they call it 'Casey's chariot...
...first time out, Freedom's People undertook to reveal the origins of Negro spirituals, ballads and blues, demonstrate their influence on American music. Paced by towering Paul Robeson, who sang Many Thousands Gone and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, the cast included famed Ballad Singer Joshua White, Jazzman Noble Sissle & orchestra, Blues Composer W. C. Handy. The show did right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People...
Dvorak was the first symphonic composer to use U.S. Negro and Indian themes, which he usually Dvoraked into something pretty Czech. Still living is the man who gave him such tunes as Swing Low Sweet Chariot (used in the New World Symphony): Harry T. Burleigh, dapper, 75-year-old choir singer at Manhattan's St. George's Episcopal Church...
Waller at the Console (Fats Waller; Victor; 6 sides). Organist Fats, who once played them straight in his father's church in Manhattan, swings lightly such items as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Go Down Moses. Popular record of the month...