Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe should be perpetuated.'' The Philharmonic's history has been a strong point of appeal. It is the oldest U. S. orchestra, second oldest in the world.* It has not missed a season since 1842 when it started as a cooperative organization giving concerts in the Apollo Rooms on Lower Broadway. The musicians stood up to play then. Several chosen for their "appearance and address" acted as ushers, wore white gloves until the Society discovered it could save $4.75 if they went barehanded. Never has a Philharmonic concert been canceled. Only two have been postponed, one when...
Bound from Brussels to London with eight passengers, mostly Britons going home for the holidays, the Imperial Airways transport Apollo drilled through a milky fog over western Belgium. As she neared the coast, between Bruges and Ostend. Apollo groped lower and lower. CRASH! She hit the mast of a wireless station, snapped it off, flopped to earth. FLASH! Flames shot high. Said one of the crew of the wireless station, afterward: "There was not a chance for the passengers or the two pilots. There was not a sound or a cry from the cabin...
...American College of Surgeons. The Fellows of the College settled down to a hard week's round of lectures, conferences, clinics and surmises, which President Haggard's further rhapsody on Women lightened. Cried Dr. Haggard, who has lived in Nashville, Tenn. most of his 61 years:* "The Apollo Belvedere,'with its magnificent forehead calm as Heaven, rises above eyes that follow the shaft he has sped. 'And the cold marble leaped to life a god.' Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves...
...London three statesmen have been wrestling with dollars, pounds and francs as the mythical Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons once wrestled with snakes which crushed them for the crime of defying Apollo. Recently the London News Chronicle, which favors cartoons of classic inspiration, printed a Laocoon group (see cut) in which the currency serpents coil around British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, James M. Cox, U. S. Delegate and Chairman of the World Conference Monetary Committee, and French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. Last week, a few hours after the Conference adjourned (see p. 16), Chancellor Chamberlain...
While Mrs. Travers and her husband's traveling companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...