Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SING THE PSALM...
...sing the psalm...
...from 'er. Somehow plump Mrs. McPherson's soaring contralto failed to please. Perhaps the trouble was her accent. Since she is a woman the Lower Classes did not criticize her personally; but several Gallery Gods bawled that Gor' blymy her assistant evangelist didn't sing so an Englishman could understand him! Biting her lip and pink with vexation, Aimee McPherson shrilled: "He isn't an American at all! He lives in London. He's an Irishman!!" Even after this explanation and much powerful preaching, however, the audience of 10,000 yielded only 40 converts...
...mere chirographic methods fail to be sufficiently drastic, the institution of a demerit system would seem in accordance with the plan thus far so nobly advanced. Boys with a hundred demerits would not be allowed to sing in the Jubilee, or worse still, would not be allowed to bring the girl who wrote that mushy daily letter. Any boys naughty enough to have two hundred demerits in the bug head proctors book would have to stand with a committee of proctors all the time the class picture was being taken and never have, the fun of throwing eggs...
Ganna Walska, recovered from trunk troubles suffered at the hands of Manhattan customs officers (TIME, Oct. 8), permitted it to be announced last week that she would sing in Tosca in Washington Nov. 7 as guest artist with the American Music Drama. Walska performances have been promised before, to Chicago and Manhattan, but hitherto something has always intervened.† Walska herself claims acute stagefright...