Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state convention opens April 22-featuring an invocation by a rabbi, prayer by a priest, benediction by a Congregational minister-or reap their share of trouble from the hottest religious division in state politics since the vote-strong Ku Klux Klan rode around heckling Maine Catholics in the '20s...
...Three Places in New England, The Concord Sonata, Symphony No. 3) which won him a Pulitzer Prize and recognition as one of the leading U.S. composers. Says Myrick: "He always said his business helped his music." Myrick became president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in the early '20s, also headed the Davis Cup Committee whose teams won the cup six years in a row. Once when touring with the 1924 Olympic team, Myrick flattered the Queen of Spain into a doubles match (Queen Victoria, with Vincent Richards, beat Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Myrick...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) William Irving Westervelt, 83, Texas-born artillery expert who recommended in the early '20s the modernization of field weapons finally undertaken at the beginning of World War II, retired in 1927 to direct research for Sears, Roebuck & Co.; in Brattleboro...
Angry Old Man. King is a superior monologuist, even though his prose is not housebroken and some of his stories seem to have filtered through sewer pipes. In style and substance, he is a throwback to the iconoclastic '20s, one of the last of the angry old men who picked up the idol-smashing habit from H. L. Mencken...
...most poignantly comic weirdie of the lot was Waldemar Schindl, a soulful inventor living in an isolated hamlet in the Austrian Alps. When King visited him in the late '20s, Schindl unveiled a machine that looked like a badly made cast-iron bird cage. The contraption gave an enormous heave and one of the wires stabbed at a piece of paper. It suddenly dawned on King that "that poor old chowder-head had - all by himself up here in this moonstruck eyrie - reinvented the typewriter...