Word: glees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football team until a back injury forced him out of the sport. He organized a band among his classmates was graduated in 1925, and has been a hit band leader since. Art Thorsen, player and vocalist in the band was a U of C. Kappa Delta Rho and glee club man 26, Jerry Browne trumpeteer and singer a U. of C. Phi Sigma Kappa 27, Warren Lewis, U. of C. 27. All three have remained with the Brigadiers through then smart career. Now Horace Herdit and the Brigadiers are heard over CBS every Thursday night for a half hour...
...short years ago, eastern conservatives chortled with glee at the stupidity of a diddering old doctor who proposed to solve the depression and the ills of democracy by taxing the rich to support the poor in their declining years. They prophesied a speedy end for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the party along side of the Greenbackers and Populists. Yet today the movement claims 25,000,000 supporters and has even begun to organize clubs in that stronghold of conservation shrewdness--New England...
...Faust. Some members of the delegation remembered him when he was a boy soprano singing for 5? a Sunday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Others first knew him as the husky young member of the Class of 1924 who soloed with the Yale Glee Club. All were aware of the name he had made for himself in Berlin, Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival under Conductor Arturo Toscanini. Nor did his old friends seem disappointed in his Metropolitan debut. They cheered him and whistled as if at a football game. But his performance, all told, was not that...
After thoroughly enjoying the Carols and Christmas music rendered by the Glee Club last evening, the following comments are made only because, as an enthusiastic alumnus, I should like to hear the Club achieve even greater perfection of performance...
...well known that the participants in both the Glee Club and the Choral Society are enthusiastic about the work of their organizations and the selections which they render. Despite this enthusiasm, however, the voices conveyed no impression of enjoyment or spirit barely restrained to the requirements of the compositions. The impression is rather one of a well-drilled group, not particularly carried away with the compositions which they perform. Technique there is an abundance, but the glee which might be expected of a music loving Glee Club is lacking...