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Word: choir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bach Festival Society (Sat. 12:15 p.m., NBC). B Minor Mass with 150-voice choir, organ and orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Arising with Drums. In the early 1900s, on every Easter morning, an orchestra hired for the occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in one God . . ." Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

From his pulpit Father used to deplore "the duckwaddle or bandmaster's style of carrying the processional cross." And when Isaac Wrubel, who owned a clothing store, asked him to take his five sons into the choir and teach them a little religion -any religion-on the side, Father said he'd teach them Isaac's Jewish religion. "The Old Testament is good enough for me," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Kerr still has time for prayer meetings and choir practice, In her way of life, religion and business are inextricably mixed. Whenever a Kerr glass furnace is relit after a shutdown, a minister is called in to ask a blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Lord Helps Those . . . | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Easy Ed") Macauley, the All-America with the face of a choir boy. They complemented each other like Mutt & Jeff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stop St. Louis! | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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