Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among protagonists of various versions of this plan have been Clarence K. Streit (Union Now) and radical Economist Harold J. Laski, who proposed a union roughly like America under the Articles of Confederation.* Last week the chorus grew. Speaking at an audience with the Haitian Minister to the Vatican, Pope Pius XII urged formation of "a stable and fruitful international organization...
...eleven minutes Paul Robeson and a chorus chanted how in 1776 Ol' Sam put on his three-cornered hat, what Patrick Henry told him about liberty or death, about George Washington and Tom Jefferson and what they did, how Betsy Ross organized a sewing circle and Paul Revere a horse race; about Old Abe Lincoln...
...open secret that the late Rumanian Patriarch Miron Cristea, onetime Regent and later Premier, had affairs with numerous pretty chorus girls. Usual Rumanian comment: "More power...
...Russian Air Force song, Higher and Higher quite well when it was played by the band of his Moscow honor guard. A song entitled Lied der Roten Flieger (Song of the Red Fliers) was launched by the Communists in Germany in the early 30's, with the chorus (last four lines...
Four years ago a young English writer, Wystan Hugh Auden, incorporated these lines in the chorus of a play. Auden's poems were at that time widely talked about and widely misunderstood-with some reason. They seemed brilliant, veiled, obscurely revolutionary. By October 1939, however, few Englishmen could still look blank over such lines as these. Their meaning was all too painfully clear...