Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bulk purchase and distribution at standard prices by the Government of principal commodities?a bold bid for popularity by promising cheaper food...
...makes no compromises with the sugary "lollypop-school." There are but few exceptions to this: His Hungarian Dances are played, with excessive abandon, by every vaudeville violinist and every cafe-orchestra in Paris, and his Wiegenlied is listed in the catalog of every gramo-phone-record mannfacturer. But the bulk of Brahms remains "musicians' music." This is particularly true of his chamber music, classical forms to be executed by small combinations of stringed instruments and piano. Four or five solemn-visaged performers huddle their chairs into a little group in the centre of a platform and discourse with sweetness...
...Stallings is a critic of no mean power. When you first meet him you gain an impression of bulk, and of a winning smile. He is a Southerner with a soft Southern voice, and he has many of the ingratiating qualities which are often associated with gentlemen of the lower part of the U. S. His attitude of mind is eager, even penetrating. So alert a mentality is apt to be a trifle impatient of the slowness of others' minds. Mr. Stallings is not characterized by literary or intellectual patience, although, as a man, I imagine, he has unusual...
...Workers and several others who were quicker than he had been to see how the bloc tendency in American politics suited the purposes of organized Labor. It was they -not Gompers-who had made Labor the factor it was in the Congressional election of 1922. And they carried the bulk of organized Labor along with them when the bloc put up its candidate for President this year. Gompers had little choice but to follow. The significance of it is that the American labor movement has entered upon a new phase and that Gompers' day is past...
Maestro Fritz Busch, General Director of the Dresden Opera House, led the orchestra, which was said to have "glowed like a colorful piece of tapestry." Though the bulk of the audience was German middleclass, former Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and General Ludendorff glittered in the Wagner box. There, too, were Hugh Walpole, English author, and Count Albert Apponyi, towering Hungarian. Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, other masterpieces followed...