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...Civil Administrator of the Canal Zone. He wrote long homemade odes for every public occasion. Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher's critics at the Tivoli Hotel parodied...
...Marine Band played dirges at the funerals of Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln; accompanied Garfield's body to Cleveland; played "Lead Kindly Light" and "Nearer My God To Thee" at McKinley's funeral, and "Lead Kindly Light" again at Harding...
...variety. But most of the Stadiumgoers were well content to take Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris, the workman-like Concerto in F. From familiar Gershwin shows came the overture to "Of Thee I Sing," "Wintergreen for President," and a medley of "Fascinating Rhythm." "Liza," "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm." New to the Stadium were the other two numbers, conducted by Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody, in which the metropolis is typified by insistent rivet-noises; and a new Rumba which...
...desirous to wash herself. . . . So she said to her maids: Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard. . . . When the maids were gone forth the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: . . . Nobody seeth us and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee. . . . Susanna said: ... It is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord...
...legitimate playhouses in the Times Square district 42 were dark last week. The eight that remained lighted were occupied as follows: two by last season musical comedies (The Cat & The Fiddle, Of Thee I Sing), two by revivals (Show Boat, That's Gratitude), two by plays which opened at the tail end of the season (Another Language, Bridal Wise), two by new plays as doleful as the doldrums which have beset the theatre all summer...