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...comes General Lee's farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia (read by Lee's 77-year-old cousin once-removed, the Rev. Edmund Jennings Lee of Shepherdstown, W. Va.), and finally a rousing performance of Dixie that ends in a high-pitched, blood-chilling rebel yell. Bound into the album are 32 pages of pictures and texts by Civil War Experts Bruce Catton and Clifford Dowdey...
...brightened by the sight of Stan Musial at the plate or the pleasure of second-guessing hard-luck Manager Eddie Stanky. For a few weeks this spring, the bleacher jockeys even got a kick out of razzing Rookie Wally Moon in the outfield. "Where's Enos?" they would yell. Did that lanky, crew-cut college boy really think he could fill in for Enos ("Country"') Slaughter...
...This is the original.") The revival got under way. Striding excitedly around his congregation, and sweating with fervor, Evangelist Poole shouted and whispered into his microphone. "I used to be a drunkard," he would yell. "I used to curse and tell lies and all those things. But I've been saved! ... If you come, you can find God around this old bush arbor ... If you go home lost tonight, it's not my fault." His flock would begin to groan and shout, to shake and roll in the sawdust. Then a string quartet would take over...
...heaven and let the Shenandoah of cliches roll. "Four score and nine years ago, the Men in Grey ceased to resist oppression on the battlefield . . . Four score and nine times Old Father Time has completed his yearly cycle since the last bugle call was sounded and the last rebel yell was heard fighting under the Stars and Bars . . . Four score and nine times the shrinking violets have timidly raised their heads from their winter hiding place to gladden the hearts of mankind. The rosebuds have sprung into new life and flaunted their wanton beauty to delight the discerning...
...Lowell opera, Miss Dean, who usually handles properties, has been called out of professional retirement to deliver each night a short, painful yell proceeded by a groan. It comes after Arthur mistakenly stabs his lover--the opera's heroine--who is tied to a tree...