Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the late Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey had to be forcibly ejected from a Cathedral service for vociferating against Manning's attacks on "companionate marriage." the thin-lipped Bishop finished his benison and then called for a hymn. Said he: "Let us sing 'Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might.'" That hymn might have been his motto in his battles with advocates of easy divorce, isolationists, opponents of pan-Christian unity, proponents of a Presbyterian-Episcopalian merger...
...people who read his rambling columns, "Bee" Behymer is as durable a Midwest institution as his paper, which is only 67. He has written for the Post-Dispatch since 1888, when the late City Editor Charles E. Chapin (who ended up at Sing Sing for killing his wife) took him on as/correspondent at Belleville...
...sing the leading parts with the 200-man chorus, he invited Metropolitan Opera Singers Rose Bampton, Bruna Castagna, Frederick Jagel, Alexander Kipnis. Said Kipnis afterwards: "That orchestra is good enough to play any place...
...Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press aide. De Luca said: "For five years I was playing cards. I refused to sing because I was not in a good humor...
...told his wife he wouldn't sing any more. "She told me, 'You are ruining your life. You always in the garden, with the dog, and read the book. What is the life?' " So when peace came they caught a Liberty ship to the U.S. Just to make sure he still had his voice before trying it in Manhattan, he sang his favorite role (Rigoletto) with the Connecticut Opera Company in Hartford. Even so, before his Town Hall recital last week he passed a nervous day. Said he: "To stay in good shape I remain...