Word: wassail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Program I. Gloria in Excelsis Palestrina The Three Kings Romeu The Wall of Heaven O Saviour Rend (Motet) Brahms II. Fum! Fum! Fum (Catalonian Folk-song) arranged by Schindler Australian Up-Country Song Percy Grainger Now is the Month of Maying Morley Wassail Song arranged by Vaughan Williams III. Sing Ye to the Lord Bach IV. Divendres Sant Nicolau The Island Rachmaninoff Irish Tune From County Derry Percy Grainger Hymn to Raphael the Divine Bossi...
Quite as unusual from the British point of view was Guest Dawes's handling of the Vintners' massy, golden wassail cup. Brimming with stout English sack specially brewed of old sherry and spices the Vintners' Cup was supposed to be deeply quaffed in sociable succession, first by Toastmaster the sporting Earl of Derby, second by Ambassador Dawes, third by jovial Publisher-Peer Lord Riddell, finally by the company at large after suitable replenishments. But when Lord Derby had drunk ceremoniously and passed the cup, Teetotaler Dawes pursed his firm lips, brushed the Vintners' chalice against them...
...controversy with the sins and shames of rural Alberto. In the second act all of us had been intrigued, as they say in "Hedda Gabler," by the photographic reproduction of a frontier lupinar, if one may be permitted to call it so. Wild ladies of the night held outrageous wassail with officers of the law, and the wicked tinkle of best glasses accompanied the loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant Mack and his men, though drinking and disorderly were on duty bent. They were present only because it was their function...
...will sing the following program at the Young People's Concert in Symphony Hall: Christmas Song Holst Le Miracle de Saint Nicholas French Folk Song Les Anges dans nos Campagnes French Folk Song Two Choruses from "Requiem" Faure Agnus Dei In Paradisum Cantate Domino Hasler O Sacrum Convivium Viadana Wassail Song English Folk Song Gently Johnny English Folk Song The Nightingale Weelkes The Campbells are Coming Scottish Folk Song La-Bas, Sur ces Montagnes French Canadian Folk Song Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard" Sullivan
Knights. The National Child Welfare Association has a unique plan for improving bad boys. "We will make knights of them," it decided, thereupon founded the "Knighthood of Youth" (or "The Order of Character"). These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They...