Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Works. That prisons are too pleasant, and justice too lenient, he thought years ago when he wrote his first full-length thriller, The Four Just Men. He thinks so still, and releases this month The Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine...
...title of his first song hit was "A Sort of a Kind...
Smaller than the New Testament is the Koran, holiest of books to the 209,000,000 Mohammedans who live in Asia, Africa, Europe, and to the 20,000 who live in the U. S. and Canada. Here Allah speaks in the first person from the breathless vastness where He reigns. Here are tales of Noah, Moses, Joseph, of the great Horned Alexander; here is denounced the idolatry of those who worship Christ as the Son of God. The Koran was dictated by, or remembered from the sayings of, the great Prophet to whom Angel Gabriel brought messages. In heaven...
...Pharmacopœia (U.S.P. on drug labels) contains a list of accepted drugs and establishes standards for their strength and purity, with directions for making preparations (tinctures, extracts, powders, etc.). The first U.S.P. was compiled in 1820, the last (tenth) revision made in 1920. The National Formulary contains formulas approved by the American Pharmaceutical Association but not officially recognized by the U.S.P. Its first edition appeared in 1888, its last...
...Lindbergh flight. Written for the July Festival in Baden-Baden, a drowsy watering place in the Black Forest which has found itself the seat of radical musical experiment, the composer also intends The Lindbergh Flight for radio consumption. The cantata was publicly described last week for the first time...