Word: jericho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Glee Club include four English folk songs, "Agincourt Song", "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes", "Swansea Town", and "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor", and three negro spirituals, "Place My Feet On Higher Ground", "Keep In The Middle Of The Road", and "The Battle Of Jericho...
...Drum", by Coleridge-Taylor, "Marching", by Brahms, and choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Ruddigore". After the intermission the Yale Glee Club will be heard again, in three negro spirituals, "Place My Feet on Higher Ground", "Keep In The Middle Of The Road", and "The Battle Of Jericho...
...offset it. But the lay audience, including such famed white Negrophiles as Novelists Fannie Hurst and Carl Van Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful, he may return with...
Evidence of recent excavations indicate that Palestine was a prosperous country with walled cities and a highly developed civilization when the Isralites entered by way of Jericho, according to Professor Garstang...
...Holy Land trembled and was shaken last week from Jerusalem to Jericho (13 miles) and very largely along the banks of Jordan. Outside the quake area were Bethlehem and the Dead Sea on the South; and Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North. Between these two seas (65 miles apart), an area roughly 55 miles in diameter trembled. Killed were some 670 persons?not one of these reputedly a U. S. citizen or Jew. Injured were more than 3,000 natives and a few scattered Occidentals. Property damage, hasty appraisers said, exceeded...