Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monte Bourjaily stated that the money was his own and answered the second question in early October with a hybrid magazine on cheap paper containing, besides pictures, an equal amount of text. From the 30,000 circulation it had had under the Times, the Bourjailyzed picture weekly increased to 117,750 including 85,000 new-stand sales at 10? the copy...
Appropriately enough, the name means "creation of gold" in his native tongue. Siamese is a hybrid of Pali, an Indian dialect, of which the Harvard monopoly is held by Walter E. Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanscrit and sole upholder of the Department of Indic Philology. The first name, Kaisui, means "good luck...
...Shakers were the first "functionalists" for, surrounded by hybrid designs of French or German ornament, they rediscovered Early American simplicity. All this is plain to be seen, in their cup-boards and in their clothes. Everywhere their superior standard of workmanship is effectively shown...
Historical crises usually bring on an avalanche of hasty interpretations, dim eyewitness accounts that last no longer than the event that gave rise to them. Less perishable than most works of its type, John Langdon-Davies' 275-page Behind the Spanish Barricades is a literary hybrid, partly a work of political journalism, intelligent and humane but offering no sensationally new information, partly a warm and colorful discussion of peaceful Spanish ways which the present tragedy makes poignant and distressing...
Less impressive than Middleton's recitative were: a Scottish Suite by Adolph Deutsch, Whiteman's short, bespectacled chief arranger; the now familiar cacophonies of Ferde Grofé's Tabloid; Deutsch's Essay on Waltzes wherein the hybrid orchestra pieced together remnants of Beethoven, Gounod, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, George Evans, Chopin, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and Johann Strauss. A blues clarinetist leaped into a long, screaming, upward run; Roy Bargy followed with incredibly nimble piano work and splashed hot chords into the Rhapsody in Blue. Beaming, Paul Whiteman about-faced, took many bows, and the All-American jazz...