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...Jumbo', our star performer, can play the national anthem without cue or guidance from me, in approximately 30 seconds. This feat is the result of years of practice, during which the seal is drilled in the progression of notes, and is the most difficult of all the acts...
...Anthem or Chant, which may be the Venite or Te Deum...
...Byoir, publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, with whom he worked when Mr. Byoir was on George Creel's Committee on Public Information during the War. (Mr. Byoir likes to tell how he once set a chorus of 600 U. S.-born Slovenes to singing their national anthem on a mountain behind the Italian front and caused 60,000 other Slovenes to desert from the Austrian army...
...company's fiftieth anniversary was celebrated by a reception at the home of President Mack Barnabus Nelson. In the place of honor stood Chairman Long with Ella by his side. After a buffet supper that lasted an hour and 25 minutes the guests sang the national anthem, listened to an invocation, to speeches; to telegrams. There was a response from Longview, Wash, on the radio. The Longs lived in a huge, old house in an unfashionable part of Kansas City, set in a big yard with a fence around it. Ella Long would have no signs of luxury save...
Shaw's early Irish nationalism was sidetracked by Socialism and the Fabian Society, but for years "he would not rise or uncover for the English national anthem, nor drink the King's health at public dinners." Reputed the best businessman of living authors, in his poverty-stricken days Shaw rarely lived within his means. Once, instead of buying a cheap bowler he paid the top price for a top hat, had to wear it so long that "in its last days it had to be worn tail foremost, as the front rim had become too limp to lever...