Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across West Virginia coal fields, through Ohio tire towns, around Michigan automobile factories, over Pennsylvania steel plants and past New England textile mills, the first warmish winds of early spring last week wafted vehement talk of strikes. This chorus of discontent was music to the ears of Labor's leaders, assembled in Washington. For weeks they had been using, with no great success, all their powers of peaceful persuasion to induce Congressional committees to act upon a stack of labor legislation. By last week they were resorting to threatening strike talk as a means of blasting their pet measures...
...bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor, declared in a sermon that during the maneuvers might occur the "incident" that would bring on the Japanese war which, said he, the U. S. is courting. Finally, to the chorus which up to this week had elicited only polite acknowledgments in Washington was added the voice of Sherwood Eddy, able Y. M. C. A. man, author of many a book on the Orient. To 400 preachers and pedagogs he sent a letter in which he objected not to naval maneuvers...
...Manhattan the Caravan, youth section of the New History Society which is a pacifist offshoot of the Bahai religion, celebrated its sixth birthday with a ball at which was sung a new song called "No More War." Chorus...
...chorus shone in the radium number making unusual effects with painted hands. As burlesque queens, they also were convincing and their stomachs are bound to amuse audiences...
...select any single individual for special honors is impossible. Five or six members of the cast, the chorus, the composers, the directors and last but not least, the author have all contributed to the satisfying moments. Unfortunately, we must begin somewhere. William Hunt, as Dean Bounce, made University Hall consistently more cheerful than it is reported to be under its present staff, though possibly, the Pudding Dean cannot manage a bender with quite the incumbent grace. Gaspar Bacon, as Yankee Joe, brought forth great admiration for his clever dancing in the radium paint number. Mrs. Murphy or Lawrence Nichols dominated...