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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (aka "Glory, Glory Hallelujah!")

Actually, that song is also sometimes known as "John Brown's Body," because the two songs, while sporting distinct lyrics, had the same melody, the same basic patriotic theme, and were often combined during the Civil War.

Last week, we gave the hint that "we tried to use the word 'myrrh'" in a headline, and then we added that "If you are still working on the headline theme, we will say that those who solve it probably say 'Yay!' Which actually does fit, though to make it more doable, we avoided words that qualify in that particular way."

And here is the solution, courtesy of reader B.B. in Avon, CT:

The theme is words with "Y" as the only vowel.

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The hint mentions "myrrh", another word with "Y" as the only vowel.

You guys have rhythm! Or is it syzygy?

We almost went with "words where 'Y' is a vowel," in which case "yay" from Saturday would qualify, as the second "y" is a vowel in that one. However, we thought that made it too hard, so we limited ourselves to words where the "y" was the only vowel. "Hymn," from this headline, is another such word.

Here are the first 50 readers to get it right:

J.M. in New York City, NY
T.F. in Craftsbury Common, VT
C.W. in Atlantic Beach, FL
T.M. in New York City, NY
T.K. in Half Moon Bay, St. Kitts
R.G. in Washington, DC
A.O'N. in Wiesbaden, Germany
J.S. in Huntington Station, NY
R.E. in Birmingham, AL
M.A. in Boston, MA
R.R. in Westborough, MA
S.S. in Lucerne, Switzerland
K.S. in Chicago, IL
C.S. in Maine, NY
J.M. in Estes Park, CO
S.K. in Atlanta, GA
M.B. in Denver, CO
D.L. in Springfield, IL
J.F. in Charlotte, NC
M.S. in Canton, NY
N.C. in Columbus, MS
S.K. in Ardmore, PA
B.W. in Tyngsborough, MA
R.M. in Summerville, SC
M.Z. in Sharon, MA

A.E. in Cleveland, OH
B.M. in Chico, CA
P.H. in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
J.L. in Sterling, MA
W.S. in Louisville, KY
B.B. in Avon
S.G. in Durham, NC
H.B. in Croydon, England, UK
K.H. in Albuquerque, NM
R.F.W. in Atlanta, GA
G.H. in Acton, ME
M.A. in West Windsor, NJ
A.R. in Arlington, VA
J.S. in Columbia, MO
I.H. in Occupied D.C.
W.M. in Istanbul, Turkey
J.N. in Zionsville, IN
C.W. in Hamilton, NY
K.J. in Toronto, ON, Canada
C.S. in Philadelphia, PA
K.R. in Austin, TX
D.J. in Lake Forest, IL
R.D.K. in Ebensee am Traunsee, Austria
D.M. in Oakland, CA
B.G. in Houston, TX

The 50th correct response was received at 9:46 a.m. PT on Friday.

For this week's theme, it relies on multiple words per headline, and it's in the category Entertainment. For a hint, we'll say that if you can't figure it out, you may never be able to forgive yourself. Yep, you'll be Unforgiven. Incidentally, we included the ICE headline, because that item is less about the shooting than it is about the government's response.

If you have a guess, send it to comments@electoral-vote.com with subject line September 26 Headlines. (Z)

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