Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the announcement that the staff shall endeavor to put forth a paper which will in every way be an organ of the people and free speech the Harvard Critic once again is braving the Cambridge publication work with as many issues as interest will produce. Not two years ago the first issue of the Critic made a much heralded appearance on the news stands of the town. It was the first time in many a moon at Harvard that there had appeared a journal of controversy as liberal as the Critic seemed to be. Many members of their staff...
...banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism of Di Valero," exulted the official militia organ, "is the supreme gesture of a Black Shirt who, facing the alternative of failing in duty or dying, accepted without an instant's hesitation the choice of death...
...concert in 1929, bushy beloved Sir Henry Wood, famed English conductor, led his orchestra through Bach's Organ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Londoners, delighted, ruffled through their programs to discover that the transcription was by one Paul Klenovsky. "a young man understood to have lived in Moscow." clapped loud & long. The Klenovsky transcription was played with equal success at Liverpool, over B. B. C., and in Hollywood. Pressed for more information about the young man, Sir Henry added the following program note: "It is a pity that this young man has died. His early death robbed Russian music...
...buying presents and flowers for the improvised altar, and certain girls had donned their best summer frocks to be bridesmaids; how the bridal couple hastily enlisted a Rev. Frank H. Wells of Mount Vernon, N. Y. to perform the service while someone played the wedding march on a portable organ and someone else loaned Mr. Marshall a ring and someone else again gave Miss Fortescue away. Amid squeals, hugs, kisses, handshakes, the couple made their way to an automobile. At 11 p. m. Bride Fortescue was back in her dormitory, Groom Marshall on his way to Manhattan...
...professional storytellers, folk tales preserved by word of mouth from generation to generation. A boys' magazine called Shonen Club was intended to teach sound morals and national pride in a familiar chatty style. Omoshiro ("Interesting") Club (now Fuji) was inspired by the Curtis magazines in the U. S. "An organ for all that was interesting and amusing, light and soothing," it was designed to sell at a low price and develop into a popular advertising medium. No. 5, Gendai ("Present Generation") was a serious magazine of the review type. With No. 6, Fujin Club, Noma entered the women's field...