Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decorations have caused mirth before last week's Heffling. Among the capitol guides is an angular-winded woman, who, when she has herded a group of sightseers into the President's room, points at a female figure painted on the ceiling, and chants in a nasal sing-song that can be heard down the outer corridors: "And that lady there is called the Eye of Gawd, yes, the Eye of Gawd. An' if you wonder why she is so called, just walk around the desk here, yes, this way around, follow me, watch the Eye of Gawd...
...dozen years ago Joseph P. Kennedy, Boston Irish boy just turning his 20's loved to hear Sweet Adeline. The song was the favorite of Boston's recent (1906-07, 1910-14) Mayor, John Francis Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald would sing it in the front parlor of his folksy white home in Dorchester, Boston suburb. Young Kennedy, outside on the porch hammock would give ear and, with him, Rose Fitzgerald. Or while her father's heart pined for "Adeline," they would stroll into Franklin Park, past the monkey house toward the quiet place of the bear pits. Rose...
...Glee Club will journey to Philadelphia and sing at the annual conference of the Associated Harvard Clubs, which will be held on Saturday, it was also announced at the same time...
...Sing "Star-Spangled Banner...
Laugh and the world laughs with you: and so it is when you sing. Apollo sang, and his worshippers joyously followed his example. Now the Glee Club sings, and the world of Harvard hums in sympathy. The Chapel, filled with the remembrance of many an austere hymn, tosses back the echo to the tall columns of Widener, until finally even the echo is silent, and the Yard sleeps with the refreshed memory of an old Harvard tradition...