Word: diapasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press. Its editors were "nothing but working newspapermen who are tired of the 'Daily Wail,' the 'Unlucky Star,' the 'Scare Telegram' and the 'Terrible Times' . . . We are no journalistic ostriches and we do not deny the fact that our world today is full of misery and injustice ... All we want to do is show the other, more pleasant side of the picture...
Chet is also the founder and "grand diapason" of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their first dollars selling newspapers. He earned his at organ-pumping, and so did such distinguished members (Chet collected about 4,000 at $5 a "diploma") as Ring Lardner, Julius Rosenwald and Jimmy Walker...
...radio. The people began to get the self-conscious feeling that they were witnessing history. In Manhattan, as if someone had pulled a giant lever, the windows went up and paper tumbled in torrents, soon after the President's first words were heard. For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything. Then, as if they might burst unless they let it off, people began to shout...
Just before the U.S. press began to sing a diapason of approval for the U.S. declaration of war-in the week that closed the night before Pearl Harbor-interventionist sentiment in the press had slumped to its lowest point since last spring. According to the survey of James S. Twohey Associates it stood at 54%-as against 84% eleven weeks earlier...
Organist Roosevelt, feeling that his audience was with him, now began pulling out the stops and bearing down on the booming diapason. Rapidly, dramatically, the President...