Word: diapasons
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...application to the wall. In 1929 the political explosion that brought death to thousands of Mexican soldiers landed Artist Orozco in New York where he was adopted wholeheartedly by Miss Alma Reed, operator of the since defunct Delphic Studio. Exhibitions were given, the organ of critical praise swelled in diapason. The West's view of Orozco, a view of one of the finest things he has done, was made possible by the removal of some scaffolding from the dining hall of Pomona College, 40 mi. south of Los Angeles. Last winter, head of Pomona's art department...
...calculated to impress its audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom's most cherished treasures- its mighty organ. In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos. Glue was made by boiling strips of cattle and buffalo hides. Recently reconstructed, the instrument, with 5,500 pipes, is among the world's largest, draws comparisons with those in Frieburg, London's Crystal Palace, Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Designed...
Rosamund Johnson was next, arranger of The Book of American Negro Spirituals, composer on the African five-tone scale, whose voice is like a diapason. Taylor Gordon's is like molasses and a clear bell. They sang together. He trained Taylor...
When the organ sounds its joyous diapason, Cardinal O'Connell will listen with the ears of a notable composer. In a basement he found the oldest Christian church in Rome. In another basement likewise, when he was a student at St. Charles College, Maryland, he found a broken-down melodeon. Some of the pipes would sound, however, and he sat there playing, lost to everything else, including his classes...
...rivals' corners. Choral shouts mingled with the principals' gasps, with the thud of leather on flesh, with the nervous shrieks of the piccolo. The climax arrived with the referee's musical cry of "Foul! !", which "rent the ear" and which was followed by the trained diapason of hoots and yowls from rival corners...