Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Bertrand Russell's favorite hymn was "Weary of earth and laden with my sin." At the tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...
...University of Toronto, through its publicity bureau, has recently made arrangements with Rudy Vallee whereby the 'Varsity college hymn promises to become as great a nuisance as a certain other song which was once dear to the hearts of the graduates and undergraduates of a now well-known American college...
Reference the controversy raging in "Letters" column of TIME concerning the sacredness of a certain Marine Corps Hymn, the attached clipping may be interesting to one side or the other of the debate, or perhaps to both...
...Marine Hymn...