Word: organ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clara Zetkin, Editor of Die Gleichheit, organ of the International Socialist Woman's movement allied with the Spartacists, was expelled from her post when the Party Directorate took control of the paper...
...only 3,000,000 marks?about one third of the material valuation of the property, exclusive of good will. Incidentally it was rumored that the purchasers of the paper, Walter Salinger and Dr. August Weber, had secured it for the Government which intended to utilize it as an administration organ...
...Nation's Business, organ of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, published an official statement from President Von Hindenburg...
...hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings and felted hammers. Such a dream-piano may have been made incarnate...
Once there was a riding school in Salzburg, Austria. Max Reinhardt, whose castle-Leopoldskron-overlooks the crenelated streets of the old cathedral town, sent some weeks ago an army of mercenaries against the riding school with billhook, adz, hammer, saw. They tore out the stalls, put in a pipe organ. A choir loft went where the bins had been; the walls, which still preserved the smell of saddle-soap, disinfectant and horse-manure, were transformed into cathedral columns; the tanbark became an amphitheatre for the quality. There, last week, gathered a number of deposed princes, English lords and their ladies...