Word: hosannas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls on the walls of the White House. Hosanna...
...Theodore Ward; produced by Eddie Dowling & Louis J. Singer) is one more earnest, inept effort to picture the U.S. Negro on the stage as something more than a banjo-strumming, hosanna-shouting field hand. This one examines the struggles of a group of ex-slaves who are trying to hold on to Civil War land grants on an island off the Georgia coast. Without money or political know-how, and bedeviled at every turn by villainous planters, the Negroes doggedly stick to their freedom-loving principles as the forces of greed move in to destroy them...
...Name of the Lord." One day 54 years ago, churches in Genoa (as everywhere in the world) were overflowing with holy joy in commemoration of Christ's entry into Jerusalem. The priests read the Gospel: "Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord." Then the congregation clutched palm branches. Meanwhile, in Genoa's drab Via Albergo dei Poveri...
...Said the Washington Post: "To be sure, Mr. Welles was one of the 'hosanna boys' or 'star-gazers,' as Mr. Hull stigmatizes the expositors of the Four Freedoms. . . . But in terms of ultimate loyalties, surely no sin of disloyalty could be chalked up against Mr. Welles on that account...