Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...file out upon the stage of Town Hall to sing publicly the music they have been singing all year in church. When this happens, Town Hall is invariably packed to the doors. Students, critics, laymen and churchmen well know that no other organization in the U. S. can sing plain song so perfectly as the Pius X School Choir. Last week Manhattanites were marveling again that any choir could get such feeling out of archaic melodies and Latin texts...
...little woman named Mrs. Justine Bayard Ward, 57-year-old sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan connected with the College of the Sacred Heart...
...Ward broke her connection with the school six years ago but it still thrives with a faculty of ten, enrollment of 125. Graduates have already gone as far as Japan and Australia to teach the proper way to sing plain song. Mother Georgia Stevens, the school's director, is also a convert. She is widely known for her music textbooks for children, hopes some day to make the boys in her school sing as well as the girls...
...neutrality, cringing at every warlike move, and yapping whenever its long commercial toes are tread upon. The new neutrality proposal is so positive and direct in its method that it practically bares its fangs and curls its lips to maintain peace in face of a foreign war, In the plain words of its author, Senator Pittman, the bill does "not attempt to construe, determine, or deal with the controversial and mythical question of so-called neutrality...
...Lowe's State loges last Saturday night, we had a brain-storm that carried across a couple of centuries, from the elite sectors of Manhattan to the 18th Century hot spots along the Left Bank. Greta Garbo, "La Dame aux Camelias", simplified for the American people into just plain "Camille...