Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of God, Amen," wrote Thomas R. Marshall at the head of a blank piece of white paper. Below he wrote an instrument bequeathing all his worldly goods to his wife, Lois K. Marshall...
...Manhattan, Teacher Scopes was rushed about, nervous and bewildered, to conferences where lawyers who were allegedly interested solely in seeing justice done squabbled amongst themselves as to who should be chosen and in what order they should rank. In the excitement, Teacher Scopes became the forgotten instrument of a Great Cause. In the minds of one group of the Scopes advisors, this Cause was the dignified one of abstract academic freedom. This group wanted Lawyer Charles E. Hughes to lend distinction to the case. Others were for "jazzing" the case, splashing it in even larger type through 'the headlines...
Germania (organ of the Catholic Party): "This note proves again that the Versailles Peace Treaty does not give peace, but is an instrument for keeping alive the spirit of war. If the Allies really want peace, they should further the spirit of conciliation and understanding in Germany, and not, through petty chicanery, make the blood of even the most peaceful German boil...
...drawn in printing news ? . . . For instance, a newspaper might for conscience' sake spare a man from the gossip of his neighbors concerning his financial inability, yet tear out his vitals by publishing the disgrace of a loved one. A woman's financial standing is held inviolate, but the same instrument which protects her name in that respect would not suppress her moral downfall if public record were made of the fact...
...most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black instrument buzzed like a fly in a funnel. Another virtuoso had painted from memory his conception of a pterodactyl seen in the Natural History Museum. Hardly a drawing, a painting, a piece of sculpture, failed to reveal the record of personal experience, procured by observation, executed with sensitiveness...