Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...green teeming northern forests to Walton, N. Y., came well-named Robert Carver North, aged 12. Lecturing in a Methodist church, he showed pictures of streams far away under big strange trees, of mysterious mischievous animals, of great mountains, of wide unfamiliar lakes in which shone, with the regular rhythm of a clock, the black night sky or, in the daytime, the reflection of green hills. These were photographs which he had made when on an expedition, consisting of himself and one Indian guide, 1,250 miles into the wilderness of Canada...
Rythm. Dr. G. P. Bidder extended Sir Arthur's history of mankind back to pelagic times, saying: "We owe our appreciation of dancing, poetry, music and our sense of rhythm to the actions we made when we were only tiny blobs of jelly flagellates, millions of years...
...main theme, by its forthright, bold, persistent rhythm signi- fying the courage of the aviator, runs through a series of minor themes which describe in detail how the Spirit of St. Louis was made ready for flight. Percussion instruments hum, rumble, roar to denote the spinning of the propeller. Brasses indicate the farewell hammering in mechanics. Gentler instruments soothingly interpret the pouring of oil. Then the plane soars to the screech of a fire engine siren. Storm, sleet ... a lyrical movement as the hero sights the mainland of Europe. Finally, triumphant orchestration. Herein ring fragments of "Dixie," "The Star-Spangled...
...Sacco and two advisers brought the news. For an hour and a half, they talked together, while prison guards listened and looked. Mr. Sacco (then on the 19th day of a hunger strike) mumbled over and over: "I told you so, I told you so," as if in rhythm with his throbbing, withered arteries. Said Mr. Vanzetti: "I don't believe...
...medal swung back and forth to the rhythm of the fundamentalist leader's vehemence. His usually sonorous voice sounded less impressive from his bed than it sounds from Calvary pulpit...