Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been announced that the following have won scholarships: John B. Addington, East Aurora, Ill.; John F. Ambrose, Ozone Park, N. Y.; Nathan Belfer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harry E. von Bergen, Roslindale, Mass.; Milliam A. Betz, Columbia, Mo.; Robert M. Boyd, New York, N. Y.; John K. Bragg, Charleston, S. C.; John C. Brechin, Bristol, R. I.; Loring T. Briggs, Taunton, Mass.; Ferdinand F. Bruck, Bonn Rhein, Germany; John P. R. Budlong, East Greenwich, R. I.; Myron I. Burnes, Brookline, Mass...
...made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been created a baron." About the music of Stravinsky he is unenthusiastic, finds extreme Modernist Schonberg "unsympathetic...
...appeared in districts where immigrants were arriving from Russia, the Ukraine, the Carpathian Mts. The newcomers claimed to be Catholic but they lived by the Julian Calendar (Christmas on January 7), segregated men and women in their churches, had married priests who gave them the bread & wine of the mass mixed together in a spoon...
...pleased, another Christopher Morley revision of a classic. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, gave free play to his quotation-loving mind, resulted in a fat, handsome volume that was interesting reading, valuable for reference. The first Bartlett's was published in 1855, when Josiah Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left...
...second point made by Dr. Bruening was that the emotional intensity caused by Nazi mass meetings had overcome popular interest in politics and legislation to such an extent that the people were willing to believe anything. In fact in 1931, he said, the government found it necessary to persuade Parliment to stay together to pass the budget, in order to preserve the face of democracy...