Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek slack-suits, Comedienne Thompson stepped into the spotlight, looking like a caricature of the neurotic, world-weary woman of the '20s. Bouncing about behind her were the four young, mobile-faced Williams brothers, who served as a kind of combination corps de ballet and hot choir. Anything went: patter, pantomime or pratfalls, and Pauvre Suzette, a song about a young woman with a Restoration bosom. Says Kay: "We ram it down their throats...
...administrative core of the Foundation's work is a fifteen-man "student council," composed of both Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates under the presidency of Paul Van Buren ocC. Nearly all council members are chairmen of sub-organizations, such as the choir which sings at the Sunday services...
...back home. Memphis' welcome filled her eyes with tears. There was a big parade, a luncheon with the mayor, a fashion show, a ball at which she danced with her fiancé, Intern John Hummel. Then Miss America went back to her studies at Memphis State College, her choir singing and her Methodist Sunday School class...
...best thing about Our Lan', the singing of spirituals by the Joshua Lee choir, only serves to make the show's conflict seem more picturesque than poignant...
...Eleven-year-old Rita Bamford of Los Angeles listened to the Vatican Choir on the radio, and liked it. Next day she picked up a phone and asked the operator for the Pope. Put through to Rome, she was told by a Vatican City spokesman that the Pope could not speak English (he can) and would not be able to talk to her. To a papal aide she explained: "I'm an American girl who heard your choir and I just thought someone ought to tell you how good it is." The bill...