Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make his way inside. At once, the 1,500 banqueters rose from their tables, and the room rocked with applause. Educator-Philosopher John Dewey nodded his white head, smiled behind his scraggly mustache as scholars and eminent professors clapped until their hands ached. Then everyone joined in a chorus of "Happy birthday...
Fortnight ago, Sir Laurence Olivier's production of the play, starring his wife Vivien Leigh, opened in the West End and was greeted by all-night queues a block long. The critics sang the praises of Actress Leigh and Director Olivier, but gave Williams' script a mixed chorus of grudging praise and abuse. Samples: "I feel as if I had crawled through a garbage heap" . . . "Blatant, crude...
...Tokyo audiences, the Ainus only pretended to kill the bear and drink his blood. They shared the bill with a bebop band and a nicely undressed chorus. "Tokyo," murmured one bush-bearded, 74-year-old aborigine eying the chorus, "is the best part of Japan; Hokkaido is too far out in the sticks...
Please Applaud. In Tokyo's shiny new sports center, a crowd of 10,000 thronged to join the hallelujah chorus. Before a papier-mãché globe surmounted by doves, black-robed Shinto priests in formal vestments, shaved Buddhists in red, blue and saffron robes, turbaned Moslems and black-clad Japanese Episcopal ministers stood rigidly in silent prayer for peace...
This week the 104-year-old Gazette, now a pale, thin shade of its once fat and enormously profitable self, got a new girl. Unlike the heroine of Irving Berlin's hit of the '30s, she was no brunette chorus cutie to adorn its cover, but a long-legged, thirtyish blonde newshen to be its boss...