Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house, arranged for an acquaintance of hers to work in the Selby home as a maid. One day Maggie went to his house to study the layout and plan the murder, found Wilma Selby at home, coolly sat down at the piano to play and sing a hymn, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross. Wilma and the maid joined in the singing...
...dollars should be added to the defense budget during the short session. With that, Lyndon Johnson was off again for a busy weekend of noncampaigning at political rallies in Tennessee and Iowa. His irreverent parting shot as he left the Kennedys: "It's just like that old Baptist hymn, Where He Leads Me, I Will Follow...
Singing this plaintively courageous hymn, members of Equity, the fledgling actors' union, walked off their stages 41 years ago, spearheaded by Marie Dressier and Ethel Barrymore, and paraded through a blacked-out Broadway. Their demand: the right to bargain collectively with their producers. The producers capitulated after 30 days, during which New Yorkers consoled themselves with flicks, pickup vaudeville and impromptu sidewalk skirmishes. Last week, once again, Broadway theaters were deserted, and Shubert Alley was so dark that one could not tell a producer from a philanthropist. At the end of an artistically and financially dreary season, New York...
...Majority of One. Sari-draped Vivien Leigh held court, apparently trying to play a curious mixture of Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Equity's George Nicolau recalled the 1919 strike: "Let your answer be now as it was then-Equity!" But hardly anyone remembered the old marching hymn. Shrunken in size. Equity is now "just a cut above the horseshoers" (as one labor organizer cracked), and for years has been quick to compromise or concede. Trying to make up past weakness, the actors now want...
Pulling Out the Stops. In St. Louis, after his organist had begun a third run-through of a two-verse hymn, Pastor Marion F. Stuart of the Tyler Place Presbyterian Church hastily gave a call to prayer: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they...