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...instrument. They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance. In the Seventh Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were so stiff that it was easier to stand on them...
...which I would not accept if it were tendered me. It may be that in your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from a purely selfish motive, that it is difficult for you to comprehend that there are people, who do not belong to the "axe grinder's club" and that in Texas things are done on a broader scale. Perhaps on this account, allowance should be made for your insinuation...
Cincinnati's Dr. Hermann, 33, studied medicine in St. Louis, interned in Cleveland. His chief tools are a kind of meat grinder for shredding pieces of sound skin, a modified salt shaker for scattering the skin seeds on the wound which needs grafting...
Barnard College's Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 54, had an organ grinder haled into court when he refused to leave her window. Said he, pleading that he thought she was a student, "Ah, but the beautiful lady looked so young. . . ." Sentence was suspended...
Last year Mrs. Mellish caught her husband with a 15-year-old girl in his lens-grinding shop. Mrs Mellish had him arrested. Last week Professor Frost was trying to get him free. But Lens-Grinder Mellish objected. Liberty and libido were inconsequential to him. In jail or outside he wanted to go on grinding lenses. "I transgressed Society's laws," said he. "I must do penance...