Word: waft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingathering is almost complete this wek. A million Roman Catholics, purified in soul by weeks and months of frequent communion, are setting their mundane affairs in order. Three weeks hence, June 20-24, they will be assembled in Chicago and looped with the bonds of Catholic ceremony. Then will waft about the world, to the Pope willingly immured in Rome, a mighty odor of sanctity. It will be the greatest public demonstration of. faith ever witnessed by any religion. It will be the greatest concourse of the devout ever gathered in one community...
...keep that intricate bit of landscape at its pinnacle of horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...effect of this glorification is unpredictable. Few princesses' heads have been turned in seeing themselves mimicked by plumply imposing contraltos. Peasant women seem noticeably unaffected by the rythmic nothings which curiously garbed damse's waft across the footlights. But in the case of the dine and-dance, belle, the consequences are most grave. If the stage prototype of their kind becomes immediately and universally popular, who can persuade the girls not to trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts...
...season of 1921-22 will be given in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock. the following program will be presented by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, assisted by J. f. Lautner ocC., tenor: Prelude Vierne Andante Guilmant Dr. Davison Recitative,"Deeper and deeper still" Handel Aria, "Waft her, Angels, through the skies" Handel J. F. Lautner Gavotte Bach Pastorale Franck Prelude and Fugue in C major Bach Dr. Davison "If thou thy heart wilt give me" Bach "I attempt from love's sickness to fly" Purcell "Who is Sylvia" Schubert J. F. Lautner. Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Finale...
...following program will be presented by professor A. T. Davison '06 assisted by J. F. Lautner: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bach Air, Variation, and Fugue, Franck Intermezzo, Callaerts Professor Davison. "Waft her, Angels, Handel Mr. Lautner. Prayer, Ropartz Choral Prelude, "Sleepers, Wake." Karg-Elrt Andantino, Thomas Gavotte, Bach Professor Davison. "My heart ever faithful." Bach Mr. Lautner. Evening Calm, Rheinberget Sixth Symphony (First Movement). Widot