Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With no disrespect to our beloved Speaker who has left us, it becomes necessary, in order that the House may function and the machinery of government may not stop, that the House proceed to the election of a Speaker." On Chairman O'Connor's motion, a subdued chorus of "ayes" made Leader Bankhead 47th Speaker of the House...
...that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented a marionette show, Irish delegates a jig. President Watt demanded that Country Women ''shed that inferiority complex," symbolically urged the overturn of the present status in which the "cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener" (man). "Make the gardener the servant...
...laid the spectre of $3,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks contained in that prime inflationary measure. Last week the bogey rose again to haunt them after 218 Representatives had signed a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. First by a vote of 220-to-153, then by a chorus of "ayes," the House this week took the two parliamentary steps required to bring the measure to the Floor. Pooh-poohed Speaker Byrns: "The bill has no more chance of passage in the House than anything in the world, and you can bet your bottom dollar on that...
Even Mr. Churchill's longtime adversary Ramsay MacDonald joined the chorus. In his own paper, the News Letter, he wrote...
...Procession of BacchusDelibes *Der Freischutz," Overture Weber *Danse Macabre Saint-Saens *"Ride of the Valkyries" Wagner *Choruses with Orchestra from "Patience" (Sullivan) and Sea Chanties (McPhoe) Harvard Glee Club Chorus G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor *"Scheherazade," Third Movement Rimsky-Korsakov The Prince and the Princess *"Rienzi," Overture Wagner Selection, "The Lid's Off," Hasty Pudding Show of 1936 Cammann Newbury ,'37, E. R. Sargent, '36, Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. '37 (Arr. by Leroy Anderson) Conducted by Leroy Anderson *"Voices of Spring," Waltzes Strauss *"Up the Street" Morse Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square