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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a handful of Friends wore plain bonnets or broad-brimmed black hats, but the use of the oldtime Quaker ''thee" and "thy" was common. No one quaked or trembled, as would once have been permissible, but there was some public weeping, notably by British Quaker Harvey, who sobbed after being moved to pray that he might become a "candle of the Lord"-a traditional Quaker expression. The meetings at which such prayers were voiced, in accordance with Quaker belief that the Lord furnishes inspiration,, for them, were the first in Quaker history at which portable microphones were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends in Philadelphia | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...songs like Somebody Loves Me, I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off were ephemeral, Gershwin at least had the satisfaction of hearing a nation sing them. In the Pulitzer Prize musicomedy Of Thee I Sing, nothing was more memorable than his fantastic song, Of Thee I Sing, Baby. Raffish tunes from his Negro opera Porgy and Bess (I Got Plenty of No thin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So), stole into the fanciest record albums in the U. S. Fox paid Gershwin $100,000 to write music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Gershwin | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals) Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Personages with long ears The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest Pianists The Swan (Solo Violoncello: J. Langendoen) Finale Pianos: Jesus Maria Sanroma Leo Litwin *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *To a Wild Rose MacDowell *"Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...thee to France...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...cloister thee in some religious house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

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