Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn of Peace." Prizes were awarded for an organizational song, a slogan (winner: "Union Now-a Last Peace Tomorrow"), a symbol (winner: a whiffletree...
...fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of the student as training grounds the war, was selected as a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion. In eloquent verses he expressed the hopes of its builders...
County, Mo., in 1865. Little Jack Pershing was five. People were singing Julia Ward Howe's new Battle Hymn of the Republic and Pershing watched the ragged soldiers come back from Appomattox. His father was sometimes farmer, sometimes section foreman who raised his children on hard chores and Pilgrim's Progress...
...single word or phrase which calls too much attention to itself, or which is not there for the total effect." Besides a talent for the ballad, Kipling had, to an unusual degree, the talent for occasional verse. "Good epigrams in English are very few; and the great hymn writer is very rare." Eliot calls Kipling a great hymn writer on the strength of Recessional; and the best of the Epitaphs of the War are among the few epigrams in English which approach the serene finalities of the Greek Anthology...
...there were no cries of "Hot Dog!" or "Popcorn!" Neither did the milling crowds light cigarets or cigars until the service was over. They heard sacred music on the stadium organ, listened to scripture reading, recited the Apostolic Creed, pledged allegiance to the flag, roared Luther's battle hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, put $15,260 into the collection, heard Indiana's Lutheran Governor Henry F. Schricker talk about the church in the postwar world, and, best of all, saw and heard Dr. Maier's initial broadcast of the current Lutheran Hour...