Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cornpatch might be washed into the lake or buried by landslides from the mountains. Next morning he joined the village elders as they dressed an image of San Francisco in a raincoat and paraded it down the street while they chanted prayers for the town's salvation. Half an hour after the procession, the rains stopped...
...none of his fire. Cluttering his little Left Bank studio are sketches for a book to be called The Circus, costume and set designs for the new Darius Milhaud opera Bolivar, and studies for a memorial to the U.S. war dead which he hopes to decorate with huge, gay, half-abstract ceramics of planes, ships and smiling young men with their helmets...
...grey day at Jamaica last week, Jockey Gordon Glisson booted home his 249th winner of the year. No other U.S. jockey was close to him in the race to ride the most winners of 1949.* Half an hour later, while Glisson was trying for No. 250, he got in a jam on the far turn and his mount stumbled. He was pitched out of the saddle and lay still in the dirt until the ambulance arrived...
...Sample: their Show Me the Way to Go Home consists of 17 bars of written music, followed by the words "sing chorus" scrawled across the middle of the score sheet; at the end it demands a "jam out." They don't worry about programing. Says Ingle: "We play half what the audience wants, which is Dixieland, and the other half what we want, which, it happens, is also Dixieland." But they are already thinking about a new kind of music...
...Which of these results it has will de pend upon what is going on now in the minds of church members and ministers. If they look upon this as another pious chore, another headquarters' brainstorm that has to be endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break...