Word: thees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn out 80 pages of orchestration a day while his wife reads to him or plays the radio, will seem less significant to laymen than a list of the current shows he has had a hand in. He prepared most of the scores for Music in the Air, Of Thee I Sing, Flying Colors, Take a Chance and Gay Divorce. He lent his expert touch to George Gershwin's Pardon My English which opened last week in Philadelphia; to Walk a Little Faster in which Beatrice Lillie opened this week; to Sissy, Fritz Kreisler's operetta opening this...
...Bratenahl put on full vestments, was photographed giving the Church's solemn benediction to the yapping, scrambling hounds. Prayed he: "Brethren, we are gathered here to ask the blessing of our Heavenly Father upon the Riding & Hunt Club and upon all living creatures belonging thereto. . . . Grant, we beseech Thee. O Almighty God, to these creatures of Thy bounty the shelter of Thy protection...
Christopher Morley, whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...
...grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train; she carried a bouquet of white pansies and white orchids with mauve centres; the bridesmaids wore short veils instead of hats. Best man: Brother Nelson Aldrich. Ushers: groom's three...
Precisely at 2:40 p. m. self-effacing Mme Lebrun took her place of honor. She cried, "I name thee Normandie!" She tripped the christening machine. Champagne foamed and spurted. The vast black hull slid down the ways and everyone-oblivious of the fact that it had begun to rain in earnest-sang "La Marseillaise...