Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then the organ's first notes trembled into the hush, began the solemn and ancient pageantry with which the Roman Catholic Church sends its kings, its great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...
...grip on his own Progressive Party may be slipping* but in Washington he is still a man to be reckoned with. As a Foreign Relations Committeeman whose Senate seat is good until January 1947, his voice may carry far in the Great Debate. Last week The Progressive, official weekly organ of La Follette's party, complained of "the almost frenzied haste with which the Administration is driving for establishment of the international agency which will permit the great powers to govern the world...
...main crossroads in Cahmboise we heard the clop-clop of horses, and the sad, sweet music of the mouth organ. It was Home on the Range...
...horses passed-two dozen German cavalry mounts ridden now by U.S. infantrymen. The man with the mouth organ stopped playing as he passed. He winked and grinned. 'Hiya, Yink,' he said "Texas was never like this...
...Gaulle continued his slow walk up the aisle toward Cardinal Suhard and Monsignor Beaussart, who never faltered either. A Te Deum was playing from the organ where the machine pistolers were hidden...