Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after day last week until perspiration rolled down their faces and their slender grey-haired director was ready to drop, 100 students at the Westminster Choir School in Princeton, N. J., sang praises to God. They were preparing for this week's commencement, to be followed by an ambitious two-day music festival. This year, above all others, they wanted to show what they could do. Their choir was building a reputation as the best choral organization in the U. S. And it had undertaken Bach's B Minor Mass, a stiff test for seasoned professionals. Besides...
...slender, grey-haired conductor, a pious wealthy woman and a Dayton, Ohio church which had earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing...
...skeptical Sun printed the Government forecast and the morning of the mass was duly grey and drizzly. In a reviewing stand near the stadium sat Governor Ritchie, Mayor Howard W. Jackson, State, city and military officials. Archbishop Curley, Archbishop McNicholas of Cincinnati, seven bishops, many a Jesuit and Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, who as Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. brought the blessings of the Pope...
When Elder Michaux advertised for 100 female ushers, 4,000 girls, black and white, applied. When he opened his twelve-day revival in Philadelphia Arena, some 5,000 persons of both colors elbowed in. They bought programs, contributed to a collection. Stocky, gold-toothed and grey-haired, Elder Michaux introduced himself as "The 'Happy Am I' preacher," launched into a sermon praising President Roosevelt. ''The President," said he, "sponsored the NRA BlUb Eagle. I sponsor the NRA White Eagle. The difference is that the first stands for National Recovery Administration while mine stands for National Revival...
...Allan Roy Dafoe. a stocky little grey-haired practitioner who has delivered some 1,500 children in frontier Ontario, leaped nimbly into his clothes when Ovila timidly rapped at the door. In the doctor's Dodge they drove back to the Dionne house...