Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield went the Philadelphia Special. There Stokowski relinquished the conductor's stand to Charles O'Connell, one of his assistants who grew up in Springfield. In a final chorale and fugue Stokowski played the organ along with the Orchestra. But he sternly refused to take a bow, kept in the background while Conductor O'Connell reaped a home-town reception. For the Toronto concert next night special trains brought listeners from all over Ontario. The city was beflagged. Enthusiasm outran anything the Philadelphia players had ever dreamed...
...directs Grace Moore's pictures. He began his musical career as a boy violinist, toured with Nordica, Sembrich, Calve. As a director he made 21 of the old Charles Ray comedies. But composing was more to his liking. He does most of his work on his pipe organ at home, tries his tunes out on his daughter Paula...
...Nations. At the bottom of this cookie jar was a conditional jagged stone in the shape of intimations that the Great Powers would now be willing to take up the question of restoring to Germany her lost colonies, but the Great Orator's speech subsided with such soft organ notes as these...
...less than a century ago all good doctors believed that female hysterics were directly caused by a violent disturbance of the womb or hystera. This belief was an outgrowth of an ancient notion that the womb was a free-moving organ-"like an animal within an animal"-which at times roamed the body and tickled a woman to immoderate and uncontrollable laughter. This theory died only when it was clinically established that men could have hysterics no less than women. Best modern thought is that sex tension is only one of many causes of hysterics...
...admitting a wolf into a pack of sheep. The League is so near the brink as it is, that to allow Germany to use her chambers as a battle-ground on which to fight for her territorial possessions would be to ring down the curtain on the last remaining organ fighting for world peace. This cannot, and must not be allowed...