Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budapest string ensemble, as "snub-nosed." (I like her picture, myself.) And you deal with the instrument. The "horn" (the forest horn as the Germans call it), famed for the nobility of its tone, used chiefly to give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister, just a word with you. In the course of perhaps two hours winding of the horn...
...usual, a soft buzzer sounded, the little page-boys scampered aside, the great red curtains parted, and the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court stepped between them to their black-leather chairs behind the long mahogany bar. But this time there was a difference. At Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes' left, a chair was draped in black; on his right sat one of the loneliest men in the world. No spectator on last week's decision-day could look at gaunt, craggy-faced James Clark McReynolds* without a stir of sympathy...
...changed its position on the great labor questions-the industrial organization of mass-production industries, democracy in unions-that first brought about the formation...
...Harlem, Satchelmouth announced that he could not go to the funeral. "Poor John," he mourned, "he was a great guy." Poor John's relatives announced that they and not the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans...
...great shakes as a chemist was simple, earnest Fritz Kuhn. But he had a hero. One man he honored above all men: Mein Fuhrer...