Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cables from Madrid told one day last week that King Alfonso had decided to command the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera, that he would call to the Prime Ministry a grandee whose name and titles cannot be pronounced in less than three deep breaths...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
From the 20th Century point of view the lute is antique, almost obsolete.* Its name is derived from the Arabic al'ud (the wood). It is akin to the biblical instrument called the psaltery...
...where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago), one in Maryland (Baltimore's Bureau of Contraceptive Advice, only one outside of New York using an unmasked name), one each in Detroit, Minneapolis and Newark, ten in New York, one in Cleveland. The conferees pointed with satisfaction to recent endorsements of Birth Control -by the Junior League of New York City, the Universalist Church (last month), the Congregational Ministers of Connecticut, the Central Conference of America Rabbis (last June), the English National...
...parents tired of psycho-analysis." Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay is now a shout (he has whispered lovely lyrics in his time). Sometimes he is inspiring, sometimes startlingly forceful, and some-times just a big noise. Born 50 years ago in Springfield, III, he still lives there. His middle name rhymes with Rachel. Besides his verse, he has written The Art of the Moving Picture, The Golden Book of Springfield, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty, Going to the Sun (description of a Rocky Mountain tramp with Stephen Graham...