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Word: hosannahs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford) and a blue-nosed SAINT PIERPONT (Morgan). From an organ suggestively marked THIS ORGAN LUBRICATED BY STANDARD OIL came chords. A choir took up the chant: "Hallelujah, Rockefeller! Hallelujah, Henry Ford! Hosannah, Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy End | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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