Word: organ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to be sure that the World Court, although it may have been created as a result of an article in the League Covenant, is not an organ of or dependent in any way upon the League of Nations. We want to be sure that our entry into the World Court will not commit us, even indirectly, to the endorsement of or guaranteeing League policies. This is far more important than it seems on the surface. The European Powers which control the Council of the League of Nations submit to the World Court only questions which they cannot settle themselves...
...civilization has brought pleasure for some senses, it has brought torture for the hearing. One turns to the pages of history, to the writings of quiet men in quiet times and rests for a moment but only a moment. A typewriter sounds in the next room, a barrel organ in the street, and the book is slammed shut with a bang which last bang proves, after all, noise is victor. Indeed, this age has long ceased to be one of iron it is one of noise. And until there comes some quiet, until there arrives the majestic calm...
...Government will occupy all Masonic Lodges, arrest all culpable persons, dissolve the Unified Socialist Party, [to which Zaniboni belonged] and suspend the publication of Giustizia [its organ...
...priests, over the officers of the council, over the richly vested phalanx of Bishops who brought up the rear. The thurifers entered the Church. There was a rustle as the multitude stood up. Then candles were lit, hymn books opened, and to the thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes, the chanting voices of a choir of monks and the solemn soundless rhythm of the censers swinging on their chains from the wrists of the thurifers, the procession moved up the aisle. First went the priests, severe in white surplices, black cassocks; the officials of the congress in emblazoned...
...student at some compromising moment? For red-blooded action with thrills and hair-breadth escapes, there are the traffic terrors of the Square. Suspense and tragedy could both be embodied in a visit to University Hall. For human interest, what more moving than a close-up of the daily organ-grinder? And as for mystery, the movie might make a real contribution to the world's knowledge by revealing the ways and means, of Max Keezer and those cherubs of doubtful extraction who have never been known to utter but one refrain: "Gimme a penny, Jack...