Word: chariots
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...Excerpt: O I'm gonna swing it low, swing it low, I'm gonna swing that golden chariot, swing it low, O swing...
...last week's convention Stamps-Baxter was much in evidence. One of its quartets, in blue suits and red ties, brought down the house with four new Stamps-Baxter songs: I'm Having a Good Time Here, Dreaming, with a falsetto blues-style solo, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, with new words and music,* and Far Above the Starry Sky. Delegates cheered the quartet's close harmony and syncopation, bought 500 copies of their songbooks and records...
...visual razzle-dazzle a TV screen can hold. With at least five costume changes in each show, he has bounced on as Superman, Li'l Abner, Santa Claus, an Easter bunny, Father Time and Rosie O'Grady. He has made entrances by dog sled, donkey, horse chariot, kiddie car and parachute. He often coaxes the unexpected out of his guest stars: Gracie Fields sang for him in a bathing suit, and the Metropolitan's Tenor Lauritz Melchior in blackface...
French cheers were less solid than British, French dissent more furious and determined. Snarled Communist Boss Maurice Thorez: "Hypocritical phrases and lies . . . Today there rises the ghost of the new war . . We are now chained to the war chariot of the American billionaires." L'Humanité shrilled: "The war pact is signed...
...English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back from buying a work dress in a country store; and in a letter quoted from a lady of Chaucer's day to her husband, the cooing tone of the gentle gold digger sounds clearly through the medieval prose: "I would you were...