Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, are struck by hammers like piano keys. A chime or peal of church bells, from four to twelve in number, is tuned in the simple diatonic scale and the bells swing freely, emitting their not-always-melodious tones when struck by their clappers. In carillons, the biggest and the smallest bells are the trickiest to cast and tune. Ranked according to the size...
...early Wilsonian era the New Republic was the almost-official White House organ. When the U. S. entered the War it was not surprising that Walter Lippmann should be given the job of assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. His experiences in Washington and abroad (where he joined the A. E. F. as captain in the U. S. A. Military Intelligence and attended the Versailles Conference as aid to the U. S. commissioners) left him with the feeling that the New Republic was a shade too theoretical. When he returned to the U. S. he soon left...
...previous visit to Moscow last February, I dined one night with members of the Foreign Office and a few journalists. . . . Paul Lapinsky, at that time foreign editor of the newspaper Izvestia, the official organ of the Central Executive...
While radio listeners all over the U. S. were switched to an emergency organ recital, Iturbi explained the interruption backstage. "There is good American music," he cried, "but all this I-love-you stuff is just trash. It is far below 'the dignity of the orchestra to play such cheap, rotten music. See, I cannot permit such stuff on a broadcast ... I have been put in a spot. I refuse to go on with the program unless the songs are cut out." Harassed Dell officials finally coddled Iturbi into going on with the program, putting the rest...
...always happens after a major action has not turned out well, there was such unrest behind the lines last week that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin used his news-organ Socialista to point up the situation sharply: "Deterioration of the enemy's rear guard will serve us little if we do not guard our own rear. There are defects in our rear guard and silence regarding them serves no good purpose. There is but one duty...