Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Göring controlled himself with difficulty. In anguish his political news-organ, the National Zeitung, called Dimitroff's prediction a "lie." Anxiously grooming Göring for the job of Hitler's Deputy, it went on: "The Realmleader's glance, if he must have a Deputy, falls more and more on his old and true fellow-fighter [Göring...
...gorgeous, jewel-studded robes the Serbian Patriarch and his bishops celebrated with their priests and acolytes the complex rite of Orthodox High Mass. Sonorously the dead King's virtues were intoned: ''Courage! . . " soldierly simplicity! ... determination!" As the organ swelled a moving Orthodox dirge, sobs grew loud throughout the Cathedral. Scarcely able to stand as she left the service. Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia tottered in the arms of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Lest one or both should break down on the grueling three-mile funeral march a Ford sedan was held in readiness...
...Austrian-ware receptacle decorated with a lavender, red and green battle scene ($250), stood in every room. Lumberman Long had few pictures, none by famed artists, but liked bibelots like his small ivory goose ($2.25). Gongs announced dinner even when Mr. Long was alone and his valet played the organ while he sat on Aubusson-tapestried chairs, ate from English china, drank from hand-cut crystal goblets (sold for $280). At large dinners, a silver tankard more than two feet high ($135) decorated the table. A sufferer from asthma, Mr. Long had a mahogany stand on which he kept...
...Lucienne Boyer went straight on to another opening, even more elegant and gala, The Rainbow Room, on the 65th floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. First client to arrive was John D. Rockefeller Jr. who supplied some of the cash for The Rainbow Room's glass walls, color organ and two-speed reversible, revolving dance floor. At a table in an alcove farthest from the dance floor, Mr. & Mrs. Rockefeller and their guests ? Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III?were half way through the club's $15 dinner before the other frolickers started...
...building, Rockefeller Center. Producers Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls overlooking the city, its mirrored stage, its color organ which plays a design on the ceiling, its revolving dance floor which goes two speeds in each direction...