Word: chimeses
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I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! This week, 77 years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Christmas Bells in an equally troubled time, the chimes still pealed their message. It...
The Orchestra's early Harvard concerts weren't too smoothly run off, either. Someone once unaccountable began to ring the Memorial Hall chimes in the midst of a Haydn Symphony and the sirens and accompanying sounds of the arrival and departure of nearby fire-trucks were a continual menace. The...
Symbolic of the Church's College ties are the "Harvard Chimes" which hang in its low, square steeple. These bells were given by Richard Henry Dana, with the stipulation that Harvard melodies be played on them on Commencement morning Class Day, and Centennial celebrations. Though an ancient College song to...
The House of Commons Chamber, where Disraeli argued with Gladstone in the days when the Empire was being completed, where Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the members of Parliament that World War I had begun, was gutted by seven high-explosive bombs just 72 hours after Winston Churchill had there...
Of course, with Ethel Waters in there to roll the orbs, flash ivory and vibrate the larnyx, it is hard to see how any production could fail to ring the chimes. When she, as the religious and patient Petunia, sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin...