Word: 250th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successive days last week the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach hovered in the wings of Manhattan's Town Hall. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth, Pianist Harold Samuel gave six Bach programs which, added together, took more than twelve hours. When the marathon was ended no member of the audience questioned Samuel's reputation as the prime interpreter of Bach's piano music. The 55-year-old Briton set about his task modestly, unaffectedly. At the piano he made a bulky unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front...
...since the Civil War, the Northern and Southern branches of the U. S. Presbyterian Church joined last week in a common enterprise. To the easternmost counties of Maryland and Virginia, between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, 6,000 of their members made solemn pilgrimage in celebration of the 250th anniversary of organized Presbyterianism...
TIME lapses when it states that '"Vienna saved Europe." I refer to your account of the 250th anniversary of the siege of that city by Turkish hordes in their last great invasion of Europe [TIME, Sept, 25]. Although you make a brief allusion to the part played by King John Sobieski of Poland in dispersing the Turks you somewhat doubtfully add, "whoever won it, it was a great victory...
...celebration, last of a series that has been going on all summer, was officially to celebrate the 250th anniversary of that victory. Everyone in the crowd, and all Europe, knew that it celebrated another, more immediate victory for the Dollfuss Government. While choir boys shrilled Schubert's mass, only a few blocks away a number of disgruntled young Nazis under police guard were on their hands & knees, picking up one by one paper swastikas that they had scattered in the streets. This was the first crow of triumph that the Dollfuss Government has permitted itself since its struggle against...
...250th anniversary of that siege was just what the Dollfuss Government needed. A great memorial exhibition was set up in Vienna's Belvedere Palace, full of hats, gloves, maps, swords and other relics of Prince Eugene and Count von Starhemberg. Colored prints and picture books were issued. In mountain villages prizes were given for Austrian peasant costumes. Orators made speeches. And it worked. Week by week, hundreds of serious young Austrians who had felt that the only hope for their country was immediate political and economic union with Germany, have felt increasing affection for their own red-&-white-striped...