Word: pilgrimate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly less remarkable and may have had no little effect in preparing him for this final achievement. He is in fact the author of "The Academy Song Book". "The Abridged Academy Song Book". "The Students' Hymnal" and "The American Song Book", besides "The Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrim and Puritan". He should certainly not therefore be taken to task if his Prize Plan is, as some malevolent critics have implied, nothing but "The old sweet song...
...history may speak of The Pilgrims of 1924, which was in part history and in part a sort of dramatized cartoon. Therein Pilgrim Father Frank W. Stearns?with Elder Henry Cabot Lodge, Elder John W. Weeks and other official caricatures?adventured in the wilderness with blunderbusses. Sorely were the Pilgrims harassed by Big Chief Magnus Johnson with his Indians, who demanded of the Colonists: "Does anybody here speak Swedish...
...which Pilgrim Slemp replied: "I speak all Congressional dialects, Chief, and yours is no worse than many I have heard...
...Priscilla, the nomination of 1924, who was pursued by redskin Hiram Johnson, Pilgrim Weeks promised her protection and put in a good word for his friend Captain Coolidge, to which she made answer: "Why does he not come himself and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing I am surely not worth the winning. Surely a maid worth courting must also be worth the asking. Granted Calvin is silent, he must find words if he wants me. If he seeks me let him ask; till then, I answer silence with silence...
Secondly, Hopkins. This manager is a pilgrim in the lands of restrained acting. So far did he carry his theory that auditors back of the fifth row literally could not hear the whispered dialogue...