Word: sleighful
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House to the Parliament Buildings, dashed a sleigh, preceded by a troop of lancers, lances erect, pennants snapping in the wind-General Julian H. G. Byng, Baron of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., M. V. O., Governor-General of Canada, was on his way to open the fourth session of Canada's 14th Dominion Parliament. As in the Parliament at Westminster (TIME, Dec. 22), the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was despatched to summon His Majesty's faithful Com mons to the Senate, there to hear His Majesty...
...bell effects has always appealed to composers for the piano. In Borodin's Au Couvent, a bell tolls for 18 measures, silvery, gentle, relentless; Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other great composers...
...Uncle Sam in the capital and Santa Claus in a sleigh...
Gods in the skies?Jesus, Jehovah, Allah and Buddha?are all right as subjective symbols of human potentialities and attributes and of natural laws, even as the Stars and Stripes on a pole, Uncle Sam in the capital and Santa Claus in a sleigh are all right as such symbols; but such rods are all wrong...
...Symphony Hall tonight, the following popular program has been arranged by Agide Jachia: 1. Charge of the HussarsSpindler 2. Overture to "Mignon" Thomas 3. Waltz, "The Kiss" Arditi 4. Fantasia, "Tales of Hoffmann" Oflenbach 5. Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakoff 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. German Dance, Ride" "The Sleigh Mozart 8. Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert 10. Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song" Strauss 11. March, "Semper Fidelis" Sousa