Word: oliner
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...above reproach. But the Lewisohn dancers (who still retain the name of "the Neighborhood Playhouse") offended many a purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music of Gothic design and Apocalyptic splendor the audience was privileged to behold the strange struttings, posings, leapings, of a man at the base...
...Senatorial nomination after a whispering campaign had revived the fact that Byrnes was born and brought up a Roman Catholic in Charleston only to leave that faith when he entered politics. South Carolina's seven Democratic Congressmen were all renominated. Eight candidates sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Olin D. Johnson, 35, on a pledge to stop work on the State's much-needed $65,000,000 road program, led the field, will enter the second primary...
...dropped back to watch Sarazen. His final 68 set the course record, his total of 295 won him the first prize of $10,000. Horton Smith and Al Espinosa tied for second, got $3,750 apiece. Amateur George Von Elm tied for third with the Dutra brothers, Mortie and Olin, who got $1,250 each...
...Theremin, admittedly an uncannily clever invention, Olin Downes wrote in the New York Times: ''We do not like to think of a populace at the mercy of this fearfully magnified and potent tone that Professor Theremin has brought into the world. The radio machines are bad enough, but what will happen to the auditory nerves in a land where super-Theremin machines can hurl a jazz ditty through the atmosphere with such horribly magnified sonorities that they could deaden the sound of an automobile exhaust from 20 miles away...
Associate Professors Leslie Olin Cummings '09, and Ralph Beatley '13, and Assistant Professor Bancroft Beatley '15 have been granted sabbatical leaves during the academic year...