Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attainment of the musical ideal, there is said to be a two-fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation...
Wilson Prize. The 1926 Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal and prize of $25,000 were awarded last week to 81-year-old Republican jurist-statesman Elihu Root for his services toward the creation of the World Court.* Why does Mr. Root deserve the prize, any more than the eleven other international jurists with whom he drew up in 1920 the World Court Protocol? He suggested how the judges of the World Court could be amicably selected among the nations. That problem had everyone well stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists...
...muddled through" with the good will if not the admiration of the non-laboring class. The party leadership of Mr. Macdonald is unshaken, perhaps strengthened; but the trade union leaders are tarnished heroes. One hundred percent Communists, like A. J. Cook, were frankly turning last week toward the creation of a new British proletarian movement...
...popularized by John McCormack and the Victor Co.), "From The Land Of The Sky Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
...meeting was Organizer Clarke's announcement that the Kingdom would hold a convention at St. Louis in March, "to wage an aggressive warfare against every doctrine and every theory which seeks to rob God of His Supreme Majesty as Creator and reflects upon man as His highest creation." In a word, to write an anti-Evolution statute into the nation's law books. Dr. Straton was then brought forth to inflame the gathering's righteous zeal with some of his astonishing pulpit oratory: "Man or Monkey, Which...