Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought up the rear. The thurifers entered the Church. There was a rustle as the multitude stood up. Then candles were lit, hymn books opened, and to the thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes, the chanting voices of a choir of monks and the solemn soundless rhythm of the censers swinging on their chains from the wrists of the thurifers, the procession moved up the aisle. First went the priests, severe in white surplices, black cassocks; the officials of the congress in emblazoned capes; a slender crucifer and two boys bearing candles; and then-with a swishing...
...first time in the history of the Copley-Plaza, three orchestras will provide the music for a single ball. "Billy" Lozzez and "Bert" Lowe will have the main burden of supplying rhythm for the dancers, the Barbary Coast Jazz band of Dartmouth playing a series of special selections for a short time only...
...reproduce in stone every rhythm of the human body became for him almost a monomania. He would have his model throw herself down over and over in different attitudes, any attitudes, and would draw her with fierce, scrawling strokes. How his Man with the Broken Nose was refused by the Salon jury is history; in 1877 he was accused of faking his Age of Bronze-now in the Luxembourg -by taking a mold from the living model. Good people have denounced his works wholesale as "erotic." Academicians have stated that he^ combines a coarse literary mind with an inadequate technique...
...into an able quarterback, moved the year following to halfback, his regular position. He runs with a long bounding stride far better adapted to open field gains than line-plunging. He is not, as some have declared, an extraordinary sprinter. Though fast, he eludes tacklers rather by the perfect rhythm of his running?the hip-action by which he dodges without losing speed...
...reluctant summer made the weather uncomfortable for Notre Dame's new machine. Rain oiled its cogs, greased its poles. Inevitably, the team that went into action lacked the rhythm of Knute Rockne's 1924 champions, but few predictions of what it may become in the next few weeks could be based on its effortless, slipshod, 41-0 victory over Baylor University of Waco...