Word: clarions
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...jumped the Philadelphia's Inquirer's huge, clarion-voiced Al Kendrick. "I have listened with great interest for two hours to the accounts of our distinguished Soviet colleagues of their life at the Russian war fronts," he roared. "I should like to take about two minutes of their time to tell how we cover the war in Russia. It may surprise them to learn that . . . the way we cover the great patriotic war of Russia is to sit in our rooms at the Hotel Metropole, read what our Russian colleagues write in the Russian papers, and cable this...
...from her taffrail. From the bridge General Charles de Gaulle looked toward the shore of invaded Normandy. For him this was a solemn hour. He was coming back to la patrie. He had last trod its earth four years ago, when he fled from defeat to exile with the clarion call to his countrymen: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost...
...would seem to lie in a democratic process of decision and a self-imposed routine of carrying out decisions. "What is required," he writes, "is a willingness and ability to take orders and instructions and to carry them out faithfully, even when you disagree." The book concludes with a clarion call for a new belief in the common man, the core of the democratic creed...
Kirsten Flagstad, greatest soprano of U.S. opera, who untold times has ho-yo-to-hoed Brünnhilde's clarion calls, last week seemed to be in Brünnhilde's plight-hemmed in by a ring of fire. From Oslo in her native Norway, whither she flew last April to join her husband, came a report that her husband said that Flagstad would remain there until war ends...
Sunday, he secured a new album of Council Bluffs Classics by Blubber-mouth McDaniels, Happie Willsie, and Joe "Clarion" Hamilton. He returned to his room late Sunday evening after a long bull session with Harry "Alligator" Munroe '43 on the double-tonguing and the comparative merits of the French horn in Tallahassee style and played through his album, soaking in each hot lick, until three in the morning...