Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acceptance of the stone Bishop Manning arranged a Greek-Episcopal service during which St. Paul's sermon was read in Greek as well as English. A choir of Greek moppets sang a Byzantine hymn to St. John the Divine. Greeks and Episcopalians were photographed together as bushy-bearded Athenagoras. Archbishop of North & South America, presented the stone in a velvet-lined box on behalf of Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Athens, who wrote to his western brother saying: '"I consider this stone more precious than gold or silver...
When an interviewer asked Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis what piece of music he would like to listen to on his deathbed, he promptly replied: "Hymn to the Night."-the hymn written by Organist Hermann Kotzschmar, his father's friend in Portland, Me. On his deathbed at '"Lyndon," his estate near Philadelphia, last week old Mr. Curtis, who would have been 83 on June 18, heard no music. Comatose, in the last grip of a heart ailment from which he had long suffered, he did not even see at his bedside his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis...
...able to swallow about two ounces-a cocktail glass full-of orange juice. He distributed the rest, together with fruit, nuts and candy that had been sent him, to the Faithful. There followed Hindu prayers, readings from the Koran. A soloist sang St. Gandhi's favorite Christian hymn: "When I survey the wondrous Cross...
...little tike who knows Jesus and rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief of them all," and Ralph Teter, "brains of the $350,000 Dearborn Station mail robbery...
...Hymn Committee of the League of Nations Association has launched a contest for the writing of the best International Hymn to be sung to the first 16 bars of the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Prizes will be awarded to the authors of the best poems. The winning poem will be set to music and sung at a meeting of the League of Nations Association in Boston this year. The judges of the contest will be R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, and S. F. Damon '14, formerly assistant in English at Harvard...