Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scandals. The Astaires danced to his Our Nell, Sweet Little Devil, Lady Be Good! From hit shows like Stop Flirting, Primrose, Rainbow, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time and inclination for serious work. In 1923 he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman's jazz-concert played in highbrow Aeolian Hall. The enthusiastic reception it got is now historic. Thereafter Gershwin wrote for a double audience...
Crying that this would place unprecedented discretionary power in the hands of bishops, the High Episcopal organ, The Living Church, asked with heavy sarcasm: "Why not repeal the Canon altogether and set up a new one: 'Communicants of this church shall not ordinarily be permitted to have more than one husband or wife at the same time?' " Divorced New York Episcopalians, it soon appeared, would find it hard to remarry even if the amendment were adopted. Grumped their Bishop William T. Manning, vacationing in Mt. Desert, Me.: "It is the report of a very one-sided committee. . . . Those...
...billions in the new U. S. strongbox at Fort Knox, Ky. was distinguished-looking President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp., leader of the U. S. delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture of Their Majesties, crowned and in full regalia, is President...
...People do not attend church in the summer months," deplored the Protestant Episcopal Chronicle last week, echoing many another earnest denominational organ. "This seasonal lull seems for the present, at least, to defy solution." To the problem of hot weather shirking, two ministers last week reported two original solutions...
...followers in the Pittsburgh Lyceum to hear about their month-old Catholic Radical Alliance. With 200 working members, these priests have attempted to get into labor strife wherever it was thickest. Their activities had been featured on the front pages of the Pittsburgh Catholic, and last week that official organ of conservative Bishop Hugh Charles Boyle printed the Alliance's appeal for funds. Excerpts...