Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter for music students of the Bronxville, N. Y. High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must marry Ichabod Crane, because in the van Tassel family the eldest daughter must wed a schoolmaster or be carried off by a ghost...
Last week they grew excited over a dozen cases of apricots standing innocently on the railway platform at Aleppo. Ruthlessly the gendarmes tore the cases apart and, like hens who had just done their duty on the nest, gave a chorus of self-satisfied ejaculations as they discovered not fruit, but cartridges and arms. The crates were consigned to rebellious Moslem Kurd tribesmen in northeastern Syria who have been revolting for weeks against French rule, who only day before had swooped down from the back country to pillage Christian homes and shops in Amouda near the Turkish frontier...
...CHORUS...
...When I die I want you to place my body in the office of the Mercury. Start the press and keep it running. Show the mourners the new Linotype. And have a Negro chorus sing the Rock of Ages...
...Chorus...