Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child gnaws on his rattle or chews his doll, if he crams his mouth with building blocks or paper, don't let him choke, but otherwise leave him alone. The mouth is an "important organ of investigation." Such was the advice Psychiatrist Alexander Reid Martin gave to dentists and public health specialists at a meeting on child dentistry in Manhattan last week. Parents who keep snatching things from their children's mouths not only prevent infants from exercising their jaws, but also cramp the development of personality, for a child's first "satisfactions and pleasures, his first...
...little Swedish-American town of Lindsborg, Kans. (pop. 2,004). Alma Swensson loved Handel's oratorio, The Messiah, decided that her Swedish neighbors should hear it too. So she sent for the music, gathered a chorus of young people from the surrounding towns and farms, rehearsed them and let the welkin ring. That...
...carefully selected audience Conductor Stokowski played full-weight symphonic programs. But he punctuated them with speeches, quips, unprogrammed surprises. He held conversations with them across the footlights, let them wriggle, whistle, cheer, shout, sing, throw paper darts. Once, when they dared him to, he brought down the wrath of Philadelphia's Tories by playing the Internationale. Stokowski's Youth Concerts became the most jam-packed events of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season. Optimistic highbrows felt that a sizable percentage of Philadelphia's jitterbugs had been saved for Beethoven...
...Stokowski gave them a world premiere: Alexander Gretchaninoff's Fifth Symphony. Then, as one adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more jive: "Let the walls rock and the ceiling move up and down," he cried. "I want to see that chandelier agitated by its emotion...
Laurence Hills was Washington correspondent for the New York Sun in 1920 when Frank Andrew Munsey bought the New York Herald and with it the Paris edition. Hills asked Munsey to let him run the Paris Herald and got, with the job, Munsey's blunt opinion that "there is no need of a first-class newspaperman on the Herald." Laurence Hills, then 40, remade the paper nevertheless. He threw out the French departments, put in United Press service, used airplanes to get his paper to London and Amsterdam, upped daily stock quotations from five or six to 600. Hills...