Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among musicians it is generally agreed that string chamber music is the highest, purest medium of expression. The wealthy patrons of art have taken heed: Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, James P. Warburg, Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist. So, in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall, last week, a new quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil...
...technical issue grew out of the refusal of Baron Byng, Governor General of Canada, to dissolve Parliament on the "advice" of Liberal Leader William Lyon Mackenzie King (TiME, July 5) who was at the time Premier. Not for many a year has a Governor General of Canada refused to heed such "advice" from a Premier, and accordingly the Liberals were able to ruffle the pride of Canadians by the slogan: "Is Canada a (locally autonomous) Dominion, or a (subservient) Crown Colony...
...mile channel between the California mainland (Los Angeles) and Santa Catalina Island, in practice for a $25,000 marathon swim announced for the near future by William Wrigley Jr., gum man, chairman of the Santa Catalina Island Co. Swimmer Radowich saw the shark too, but paid no heed. He had enough to think about, for placid though the waters looked, they were full of treacherous tide-rips and cold eddies which dragged him about like a chip. It was the rips and eddies, not the idle shark, that made John Radowich signal to be lifted out, after three hours...
...contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still one. of the most potent in Germany. Frenchmen have not so completely disestablished Catholicism as not to heed an occasional whisper from the Vatican. Who is Calles, what is Mexico that the immemorially potent Papacy should fear it may not triumph in the end? Centuries of Strife. During the four centuries of Catholic penetration into Mexico the Roman Catholic Church, abetted by and abetting Spain, extinguished virtually all other...
Arkansas. A Los Angeles judge had the pleasure of sentencing James S. ("Fiddlin' Jim") Davidson, U. S. postmaster of Fallsville, Ark., for traveling about the country passing $80,000 worth of spurious money orders. Arkansans, however, paid little heed to the event. "Fiddlin' Jim's" peculations are almost beneath notice in the state that repeatedly re-elects legless Commissioner of State Lands, Highways and Improvements Herbert R. Wilson, a master of high and hidden finance...