Word: hallelujah
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Died. Vincent Youmans, 47, composer of some of the nation's most hummed tunes (Tea for Two, Without a Song, Hallelujah); of tuberculosis; in Denver...
Conducer Thompson Stone added force and precision to a fervent chorus that was obviously enjoying itself immensely. Its exuberance brought out the utmost from Handel's skillful use of such words as "Surely," "Wonderful," or "Hallelujah." The orchestral accompaniment, revised first by Mozart and later by Robert Franz, was capably played by 55 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...American Romance (MGM) is a $3,000,000,151-minute, Technicolor "epic" of the U.S'. steel industry. Producer-Director King Vidor, one of Hollywood's abler craftsmen (The Big Parade, H.M. Pulham, Esq.) and most earnest innovators (Hallelujah, Our Daily Bread), took fire 18 years ago with the idea of filming a U.S. history in terms of steel. He eventually ignited Louis B. Mayer, too. But the resulting conflagration is a one-alarm blaze, at best...
When Gideon Jackson told them, the freedmen of Carwell Plantation said "Hallelujah," and relaxed their fears of this first mysterious repercussion of freedom. But the fright in the giant frame of Gideon was greater than it had ever been in battle. The Voting had made him a delegate...
...enormous bed of French Empire style, a William & Mary highboy, girandole mirrors, a sofa of beechwood, an upholstered rocker, and "a flock of odds and ends, worthless as antiques, but authentic relics of the ball-fringe, loveseat, blackwalnut, gilded-cattail era of curvature and upholstery. . . ." The strangest quality of Hallelujah is that without specific descriptions Fannie Hurst manages to make this superheated atmosphere quiver with a heavy, middle-aged eroticism. In the St. Louis, Mo. (pop. 816,000) that she describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work - and the furniture...