Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music is of a very crude type, somewhat similar to the plainsong used in rituals today in a very high Catholic church. It is sung in unison and is to a degree monotonous...
Scripture was read, hymns of faith sung, prayers uttered by three eminent and venerable divines. Then Harry Emerson Fosdick (TIME, Sept. 1, Oct. 13, Nov. 3) mounted 20 stone steps into his high-pitched pulpit and began his farewell: "When I leave this pulpit today, I do not expect to return...
...arms. It is dull for them. The people they have brought thither, wait to remove, are not even sports; they are music-lovers who give small tips, cold-eyed elegants in evening dress, or critics that ponder, as they read the meter, such terms as "a good performance, well sung," "gala night," "once more with a brilliant cast . . ." wishing to Heaven they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm...
...member of the class of 1928 is eligible to compete. One man may write both the words and music, or two or more may combine. The song should be not longer than eight lines, preferable without a refrain, Dr. Wright announced. It ought to have a light, catchy, easily sung air in the nature of a football song...
...song will be sung at all the concerts which the Freshman Glee Club will give during the year and used as the prize song of the annual Jubilee competition between the three Hall choruses...