Word: himmel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vivaldi was preceded by a Brahms motet, O Heiland Reiss die Himmel Auf, portions of a Byrd Mass, and a powerful Brahms prelude played magnificently by the organist, James Armstrong...
...Without more encouragement the gauche musician sat down and began to play his C major Sonata. Before he had proceeded far, his host cried, 'Walt, Gott im Himmel, Clara must listen to this...
...headline-catching role of chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Every chairman from Martin Dies on has been a white knight to part of the public, an inquisitorial fiend in the eyes of another part. By last week the new committee chairman, Illinois' Harold Himmel Velde, had managed to dent his halo and seemed firmly hitched to his forked tail. Velde's trouble: too much talk, too little caution, not enough political horse sense...
Illinois Congressman Harold Himmel Velde, according to Agnes Meyer, is no better. "I will give you an idea of [his] I.Q. . . . Last year he introduced a bill . . . ordering the Librarian of Congress to mark all subversive matter in the Library of Congress, which contains over 9,000,000 volumes . . . In other words, the man doesn't make sense. Yet in the hands of such people as McCarthy, Jenner and Velde . . . lie your reputations and those of your fellow educators...