Word: moravian
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Ghouls with sledgehammers and crowbars chipped and battered at a fortlike mausoleum in the Moravian Cemetery, at New Dorp, Staten Island, N. Y. where lie the bones of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt & kin. But the ghouls did not get in. Police who tracked footsteps through the snow next day recalled that 53 years ago the body of John Wanamaker's department-store predecessor, Alexander Turney Stewart, was stolen from its grave...
...Czechoslovakia. The Paleontological Institute of Brno, Moravia, expects to open shortly with the finest collection of extinct animals in the world. Because the Institute needs more money, a Dr. Stehlik, Moravian paleontologist, plans to go into the mammoth business, utilizing Czechoslovakia's especially rich deposits. Before the Institute scientists can fill an order, they must dig up their mammoth, clean the bones thoroughly, wash them in a solution of chloric acid and water. When the bones are dry, they must treat them with glue, coat them with shellac. The price of a complete mammoth...
...first settlers of Bethlehem, Pa., were a small religious group of Moravians (followers of John Huss) who, according to legend, held their first meeting in a stable, thus gave the place its name. Later, during the Revolutionary War, the Moravians attracted attention to Bethlehem by taking the lead off the roof of their church, melting it down for Colonial bullets. General George Washington was serenaded by the Moravian Trombone Choir, already an important group of trumpeters whose chief function was to announce festival days, births and deaths, from the church belfry. He also went to the church, listened...
Bethlehem's destiny as a musical centre might have been thwarted when Steel intervened. Instead, no less a tycoon than Charles Michael Schwab boosted it and it was an outgrowth of the same Moravian choir which, more than 100 years later, gave the first complete U. S. performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's supreme Mass in B Minor. Now Bethlehem is as much Bach's as Steel...
...college or an apprenticeship in the local drugstore he chose the drugstore because it gave him more time for music. Later, in Germany, he became imbued with the spirit of Bach, and when he returned to Bethlehem and became organist at the Moravian Church, it was with the idea of making Bach's music known there. Today the Bethlehem performances under Wolle are the object of a national pilgrimage...