Word: organ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than offset by two redeeming features: the authentic note (struck most poignantly when Actor Robeson sings the spiritual, "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child") of the Negro's inability to find himself in complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble, a sight for any sculptor. Across the footlights prejudice turns to admiration. Black Boy, with...
...seems to me that a paper so intimate as yours, speaking to its guests in general society, should restrain itself from giving offense to any one present. It is no answer to say; "Let the injured person retire." You do not profess to be an organ of any particular faith or creed and in truth you do not wish any of your subscribers to retire. . . . HOMER MOONEY...
When an excellent actor grows old he grows sentimental, a trifle lazy. Mr. Skinner is growing old. So there is some reason for his leaving the donkey and the organ for the beaver and the cane of Colonel Phillipe, defender of the honor of the family and so many, many francs! Francs! There the Gallic flavor enters. One wonders if this should not be recommended to the business school. Not in many moons has the power of a franc appeared so vast...
Titta Ruffo, famed Metropolitan Opera baritone: "I was violently attacked last week by L'Impero of Rome, a semi-official Fascist news organ. L'Impero recalled that the murdered millionaire socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.) was my brother-in-law, and accused me of anti-Fascist leanings similar to his. Italians resident in the U. S. were called upon to boycott my performances and to treat me with violence...
Spanish readers of La, Nation* of Buenos Aires, Argentina, scanned with interest a "scoop" carried by that famed news organ last week after its publisher Don Jorge Mitre obtained the first audience granted by King Alfonso XIII of Spain to a news-gatherer since the recent artillery officers' mutiny (TIME, Sept...