Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their rush to catch holiday trains, trainmen and porters put down the tools of their trade, and all together, as fellow subjects of Britain's King George VI, sang the words of their national anthem. All over Britain, in churches of every denomination, others were singing the hymn's familiar words with special solemnity. "When we sing 'Send him victorious,' " said Canon Adam Fox to a hushed congregation in Westminster Abbey, "we mean over all his enemies and especially over his present illness." Throughout the world last week, from Montreal to Cape Town, prayers were rising...
...cemetery with the Dixieland quartet leading the way. On the way and at the grave, the boys would play High Society, Muskrat Ramble, Jazz Me Blues, and anything else they thought Jimmy might like. But they would finish up with Nearer, My God, to Thee, in hymn tempo. That was Mama's idea...
...cultural commissar in East Germany, Poet Johannes Becher. More worshipful of Russia's boss than Pravda, Becher turns out such drivel as: "How happy must be the letter 'i' as it is permitted to form a letter in the name of Stalin." Cries he in his "Hymn to the Soviet Union...
Crowed Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti: "We have rallied around our banner 42% of voters in big Italian cities and 31% in Sicily . . . From our souls rises a hymn of praise...
Down to the Grave. Second most important Jewish prayer, says Bernstein, is the Kaddish, originally a hymn of praise to God, used especially in honoring the dead. The words of the Kaddish suggest that it was the basis of the Lord's Prayer: "Exalted and hallowed be the name of God throughout the world . . . May His kingdom come, His will be done...