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Around his pulpit he piled high the stack of books and magazines which God had destined him to annihilate. He preached a sermon to light the fires of faith. His organist and full-voiced choir fanned the flames of wrath with hymns of the Church Militant...
...actual performance The Miracle transcended every printed promise. The theatre had been transformed into the gloomy fastnesses of a medieval cathedral. Into this magic nave and choir, Max Reinhardt has infused the life of other centuries...
...White House conservatory to the sales girls of the store where she obtained the great portion of her "White House trousseau." At 5 p. m. the President pressed a button, lighting the great National Christmas tree rising 60 feet high in the oval south of the White House. A choir from the Epiphany Episcopal Church and a brass quartet of the Marine Band gave a concert. At nine in the evening the choir and an assembled multitude sang Christmas carols on the north lawn. At midnight a group of Negro voices renewed the carolling about the great Christmas tree...
...Coolidge was obliged to engage a second social secretary in addition to the one she already had; "Lohengrin, Jr.," first prize-winning singer at the International Canary Show at Chicago was presented to Mrs. Coolidge; Mrs. Coolidge made arrangements for a choir of 60 voices to sing Christmas carols on the White House grounds on Christmas Eve; President Paul D. Moody ¶ Middlebury College, Vt., axe in hand, felled a pine tree which was shipped to Washington to be erected in the oval behind the White House as a national Christmas tree...
...undesirable there is still the public, eager and appreciative, largely excluded from the Chapel. People interested enough to stand in the vestibule these cold nights and listen at long range deserve some consideration. A special service for the public would go far toward distributing the pleasure of hearing the choir...